The GCHQ team is battling against a new form of cyber attack
But this new show, from the Bafta award-winning writer and director Peter Kosminsky , is thankfully not about a global health pandemic. No, this is a brand new subject to get the night terrors about: the threat of cyber warfare.is set in 2024, and focuses on a team of Government Communications Headquarters analysts, who are working on fending off cyber-attacks on the UK ahead of a general election.
GCHQ is one of the three UK Intelligence and Security Agencies, along with MI5 and the Secret Intelligence Service, and their main role, according to their nicely vague website, is to: “support and guidance to make the UK safe, whilst pioneering a new kind of security for an ever more complex world.”
From terrorism to online fraud, the real team are working to stop “invisible” enemies from targeting anybody with a computer or phone in the country, which is basically every single one of us.For security reasons, obviously they don’t like to shout about them. Their greatest achievements are probably the cases that we’ve heard nothing about. One case they did expand on was disrupting a sophisticated criminal conspiracy and peer-to-peer botnet known as Gameover Zeus.
Of course, the most recent example of our national cyber security coming under attack is online activity around the Brexit referendum and our general elections, with hostile actions being traced back to Russia.“GCHQ stepped in to foil an attempted cyber-attack on BBC election coverage by the Kremlin-backed gang of hackers known as Fancy Bears. The attack came after Russian hackers crashed 11 French television channels.
Kosminsky continued: “There are no techniques shown or strategies described that aren't happening and aren’t real. The characters are fictional, completely fictional. And I call it a cautionary tale because I think that if we're not careful this hot war will escalate to the point where it threatens our civilisation. I think it's as serious as that. So that's why I wanted to tell the story.
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