Watch: Grant Shapps and Oliver Dowden address alleged China cybersecurity threat

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Watch as Grant Shapps and Oliver Dowden addressed the alleged China cybersecurity threat in Parliament on Monday, 25 March.

It comes after Rishi Sunak mentioned Britain is taking measures to guard itself from an “increasingly assertive” China after it was accused of a “malign” cyberattack on the UK.

The prime minister described China as “also the greatest state-based threat to our economic security”, and the UK is getting ready to sanction these believed to be concerned within the state-backed interference.

Chinese state-affiliated hackers had been chargeable for two “malicious cyber campaigns” concentrating on the Electoral Commission and MPs, the deputy prime minister advised the House of Commons.

Mr Dowden added that two people and an organization linked to the Chinese state had been sanctioned over assaults on the Electoral Commission between 2021 and 2022.

The identical firm additionally carried out “reconnaissance” exercise in opposition to UK parliamentary accounts in a separate marketing campaign in 2021, Mr Dowden mentioned.