T he UK is facing “ideologically motivated” cyber threats from Russia-aligned groups, Oliver Dowden will warn later. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is expected to use a speech in Belfast on Wednesday to confirm that the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is issuing an “official threat notice” to operators of critical national infrastructure amid concerns about the growing cyber threat. He will also use the address at the CyberUK conference to acknowledge that more needs to be done to improve salaries to attract cyber security experts into the civil service. The NCSC alert points to what it calls...