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MI5 chief Ken McCallum: Foreign spies are targeting officials online

Foreign spies are using online networking sites to target thousands of Government officials, high-tech businesses and academics, the head of MI5 has warned. The Security Service’s director general, Ken McCallum, said more than 10,000 “disguised ...

17 May 2022 at 01:25

MI5 boss ‘profoundly sorry’ at failure to prevent Manchester Arena attack

The boss of MI5 made an unprecedented public apology as he acknowledged the security service did not seize the “slim” chance it had of thwarting the Manchester Arena terror attack. Director general Ken McCallum expressed “deep regret” that ...

02 Mar 2023 at 20:03

UK response to Chinese intelligence threat ‘completely inadequate’, says report

Chinese intelligence targeting UK ‘prolifically and aggressively’

Successive governments have failed to grasp and respond to the scale of the threat posed by China, Parliament’s spy agency watchdog said, as it warned that Chinese intelligence targets the UK “prolifically and aggressively”. A new and ...

13 Jul 2023 at 16:55

MI5 chief in first joint public appearance with heads of Five Eyes spy agencies

The head of MI5 will make his first joint public appearance with counterparts from the Five Eyes intelligence services amid warnings about the threats to UK businesses from foreign states. Ken McCallum will appear alongside fellow ...

17 Oct 2023 at 12:35

MI5 apologises for not preventing Manchester Arena attack

The boss of MI5 has said he is “profoundly sorry” that the security service did not prevent the Manchester Arena terror attack. An inquiry found the bombing might have been prevented if MI5 had acted on key intelligence received ...

02 Mar 2023 at 18:07

MI5 boss ‘profoundly sorry’ at failure to prevent Manchester Arena attack

The boss of MI5 has said he is “profoundly sorry” the Security Service did not prevent the Manchester Arena terror attack. Director general Ken McCallum apologised after the public inquiry into the May 2017 atrocity revealed it ...

02 Mar 2023 at 16:28

Claim against MI5 is ‘next step’ for Arena survivor vindication, tribunal told

Legal action against MI5 is the “next step” for vindication for scores of survivors and people bereaved by the Manchester Arena attack, a tribunal has been told. More than 200 people affected by the bombing have brought a case ...

05 Nov 2024 at 14:00

MI5 forced to ‘pare back’ counter-terror focus due to hostile states, boss says

MI5 has had to “pare back” its counterterrorism focus because of the growing threat from Russia and other hostile states, the security agency’s boss has said. Ken McCallum, the director general of MI5, said in an interview ...

06 Dec 2024 at 22:58

New counter-terrorism orders for youths could restrict online activity

Courts could impose new counter-terrorism orders on youths as part of a plan to tackle a growing problem of teenage radicalisation. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the proposed orders could include measures to restrict ...

17 Dec 2024 at 14:54

Increase in terror suspects with fascination with extreme violence

Counter-terrorism police are seeing a rapid increase in the number of suspects fascinated with extreme violence, whose search histories are like “a pick and mix of horror”, a senior officer has said. Metropolitan Police ...

18 Dec 2024 at 16:50

‘Staggering’ rise in children being investigated for terrorism, says MI5 boss

The boss of MI5 has described the rise of children being investigated for terrorism in the UK as “staggering” as he warned of “canny online memes” drawing them into extreme right-wing ideologies. Director-general Ken ...

08 Oct 2024 at 14:43

MI5 ‘alive’ to risk Middle East tensions pose to terror threat in UK, boss says

Russia is intent on causing “mayhem” on UK streets, and Iranian-backed plots posing “lethal threats” to British people are ramping up at an “unprecedented pace and scale”, the boss of MI5 warned. Director general ...

08 Oct 2024 at 20:54

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