{"id":425,"date":"2026-10-13T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/iran-and-russia-targeting-britain-with-hybrid-methods-uk-spy-chief-says-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:48:07","slug":"iran-and-russia-targeting-britain-with-hybrid-methods-uk-spy-chief-says-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/13\/iran-and-russia-targeting-britain-with-hybrid-methods-uk-spy-chief-says-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Russia targeting Britain with hybrid methods, UK spy chief says &#8211; National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpe_imgrss\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Iran-and-Russia-targeting-Britain-with-hybrid-methods-UK-spy-chief-says-National-Globalnews.ca_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-byline\" readability=\"56\">\n<div class=\"c-byline__text\" readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span>By Michael Holden<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-byline__source c-byline__source--noName\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReuters<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-byline__datesWrapper\" readability=\"8\">\n<div class=\"c-byline__dates\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Posted October 13, 2026 8:42 am<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"c-byline__dateToggle toggle-switch u-hide-tablet-portrait\" aria-label=\"Toggle last modified date of the article\" data-expand=\"#bylineDateUpdated\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span id=\"updated-toggle-off\" class=\"toggle-off\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"c-icon  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referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In his annual speech on wide-ranging threats to Britain, MI5\u2019s Director General Ken McCallum also said the greatest concern about the misuse of AI was terrorists being able to develop bioweapons or even create new novel pathogens.<\/p>\n<p>McCallum said state threats had quadrupled over the last decade meaning his organization now devoted more resources to the issue than during the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/12099692\/uk-us-iran-attack\/\">British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Tehran was \u201chighly likely\u201d behind a suspected plot against RAF Fairford<\/a>, which had been used by U.S. bombers to carry out strikes<br \/>on Iran. 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There have been other examples, not just in the UK but around the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Russia, which likewise denies involvement in hostile acts in Britain, the UK spy chief said it remained the \u201caggressor number one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He echoed comments from other European spy agencies that Russia was using tactics just short of conventional conflict, citing the attempted drone \u200battack on a cargo plane at a German airport and a cyber attack on Polish energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no accident that Russian aggressors are trying to unsettle other European homelands at a time when their military progress in Ukraine is minimal and horrifically costly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad c-ad--tallSticky\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"l-article__copyright\">\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Reuters\t<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">: World<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michael Holden Reuters Posted October 13, 2026 8:42 am Updated October 13, 2026 8:43 am 2 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Iran is ramping&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}