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MI5 chief: Iran now targeting UK military bases, far-right radicalisation rising, AI threat growingMI5 warns AI could enable bioweapons and drone attacks
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McCallum said AI was "supercharging" the cybersecurity contest between attackers and defenders and that MI5 had caught terrorists trying to combine AI with drones and potentially develop novel bioweapons; he announced a new AI Threat Assessment Centre.
“Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough.”
ottoenglish.bsky.social, Bluesky poster · bluesky ↗Sir Ken McCallum Director General of MI5Iran / IRGC State actor accused of hybrid aggressionRussia / Kremlin State actor labeled "aggressor number one"Patriot Platform Far-right protest group
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first by Financial Times, 20h ago · also Globe and Mail, Arab News, SCMP, Times of India, Times of Israel, Al Jazeera +3
9 more headlines
- Iran targeting military sites, suspected plot at U.S.-run base ‘not unique,’ MI5 chief says Globe and Mail · 19h ago
- MI5 chief says Iran is targeting UK military sites Arab News · 19h ago
- MI5 chief warns Iran is targeting military sites in UK as hostile state threats surge SCMP · 18h ago
- Iran seeking to expand attacks in UK to military sites, MI5 chief warns Times of India · 18h ago
- MI5 chief says Iran is targeting military bases in UK, airbase plot ‘not unique’ Times of Israel · 18h ago
- MI5 Chief: Iran Is Targeting Military Sites, Suspected Plot at RAF Fairford Is ‘Not Unique’ NewsMax.com · 16h ago
- UK spy chief says Iran is stepping up targeting of military bases Al Jazeera · 16h ago
- Iran targeting military sites in UK, MI5 chief says The Hill · 16h ago
- MI5 chief says Iran targeting military sites, suspected plot at RAF Fairford 'not unique' The Hindu · 16h ago
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6 outlets UK facing ‘new era of national security’ with most foreign threats since Cold War, MI5 chief warns
first by The Independent, 20h ago · also NYT, Sky News, Hindustan Times, Legal Insurrection, Independent UK
4 more headlines
- MI5 Chief Warns of Growing Iranian and Russian Threats to U.K. NYT · 20h ago
- AI 'supercharging' security threats to UK, MI5 warns Sky News · 20h ago
- Britain’s MI5 spy chief warns of Iranian threats, AI-fuelled cyber risks: 'UK entering new era of national security’ Hindustan Times · 17h ago
- MI5 Chief Warns of Growing Iranian Threats to UK Military Bases Legal Insurrection · 16h ago
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first by The Times, 20h ago · also The Telegraph, Evening Standard, The Independent
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- MI5 chief: Terrorists plotting AI drone attacks on Britain The Telegraph · 20h ago
- AI could give terrorists access to bioweapons if guardrails fail – MI5 chief Evening Standard · 20h ago
- Terrorists could use AI to target UK with drones and bioweapons, MI5 chief warns The Independent · 20h ago
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first by Mastodon, 20h ago · also Guardian
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first by UPI, 15h ago
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Sir Ken McCallum head of MI5 - Russia remains "aggressor number one" and is fighting a hybrid war against the UK that is not being taken seriously enough. This "war" did not start last week. It's been going on for a decade+ and those denying it should be challenged.
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🚨🇬🇧🇮🇷 MI5 chief is warning that Iran is now targeting MILITARY BASES on British soil... More than 50 people have been arrested over Iran-linked operations in just one year... MI5 Dir. Gen. McCallum says Tehran has escalated from suspected arson and sabotage attacks against
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UK in ‘new era of national security’ as AI supercharges rising threats, security chief warns https://www. cnn.com/2026/10/13/world/video /france-hack-uk-mi5-cybersecurity-mccallum-ai-live-ctw-101310aseg2-cnni-world-fast?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into World News @ world-news-CNN
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They used it to radicalise those not already fully radical. Giving people victim narratives is extremely dangerous. It makes them very easy to radicalise. When people think they are the true victims they can easily be persuaded to do awful things. As the Nazis knew and used to its full awful potentiail.
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🇬🇧 MI5 is devoting more resource to countering state threats than during the Cold War, the head of the intelligence service has said. Sir Ken McCallum said # Russia remained "aggressor number one", and warned MI5 was now facing a situation in which "our terrorism and state threats operational missions are pretty much of equal scale" because…
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I do take your point and agree with a lot of it but I would say there is a difference when you have right wing politicians also emboldening the violent narrative and trying to stoke the flames as well. It would be nice to see some pushback on this from the right.
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World - South China Morning Post | MI5 chief warns Iran is targeting military sites in UK as hostile state threats surge https://www. scmp.com/news/world/europe/art icle/3370774/mi5-chief-warns-iran-targeting-military-sites-uk-hostile-state-threats-surge?utm_source=rss_feed # WNN7 # BreakingNews # WorldNewsNuggets
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Is this because they consider that old people with cardboard signs protesting against genocide, are actually terrorists? No. The article says why. Spoiler: it isn't old people with cardboard signs.
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But but but the extreme left want to steal my freedom of destroying the planet.... 🔗 https://www. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/o ct/13/rightwing-extremists-increasingly-likely-to-consider-terrorist-attacks-mi5-chief-says
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