Overview
- Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper will announce measures to expose and disrupt disinformation and cyber threats in a speech marking the Locarno Treaties centenary.
- She urges urgent cooperation between Britain and Europe after Downing Street talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz, with separate meetings in Washington with Marco Rubio.
- Officials cite Russian networks using deepfakes and forged documents in English, German and French, including fake party websites in Moldova and videos targeting President Zelensky and Olena Zelenska in African markets.
- Cooper frames information warfare as an effort to weaken infrastructure and interfere in democracies, stressing that UK debates on migration, gender and climate must not be manipulated by foreign states.
- Reports note about 7.8 million cyber attacks on the UK last year, with recent high‑profile intrusions affecting the NHS, media firms, Jaguar Land Rover and Marks and Spencer.