Kremlin-backed hackers target ambulance service

Russian hackers have targeted ambulance services as part of a wider cyber campaign to cause "mayhem" on British streets.

- ALEXANDER BUTLER

The attack by a Kremlin-backed hacking network was aimed at key suppliers to UK Ambulance Services over the past 12 months.

The hack comes after MI5 director Ken McCallum warned the UK would see “continued acts of aggression” from Russia during the ongoing war in Ukraine.

The hackers were able to target a key supplier to the Ambulance Radio Programme, which connects ambulances to the NHS and other emergency responders, the i newspaper reported.

It is believed to form part of a new Russian cyberwarfare campaign dubbed by UK intelligence sources “Cyber Wagner”, in reference to the hardline Russian mercenary group run by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin.