The UK National Cyber Security Centre has warned that an AI-enabled ransomware attack on critical national infrastructure is highly likely by 2028, according to the 10 Things Global News briefing of 3 November. The agency says artificial intelligence could allow attackers to exploit existing vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale. The warning concerns a trend in capability, and no specific attack is described.
NCSC chief executive Richard Horne named China as the most sophisticated and sustained cyber threat facing the country. He also flagged activity linked to Russia and Iran, the briefing reports.
On cost, UK authorities estimate that malicious cyber activity costs organisations almost $20 billion a year, a figure the briefing attributes to British officials rather than to a single study. That helps explain why infrastructure operators, from energy to water and transport, are the focus of the warning.
The message arrives on the same day as reports of suspected attacks on refrigeration systems in European supermarkets, which show how attacks on connected equipment can disrupt daily services. The two stories are separate, and no link between them has been established.
The briefing cites Reuters and the Associated Press for this item. Those pages could not be opened directly during research, so the details above rest on the briefing’s summary. The full NCSC assessment, including the methods behind the 2028 estimate, was not reviewed.
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