New Delhi: MI5 Director General Ken McCallum delivered the annual threat update at Thames House in London Thursday, outlining the key security challenges faced by United Kingdom in 2025. The threat update, an annual event for the British intelligence agency, is used to brief security experts, officials and journalists on terrorism, espionage and modern threats, like large-scale cyber attacks.

While remembering the 20th anniversary of the 7 July 2005 London bombings, McCallum warned of the ever-increasing number of threats faced by the UK. He also highlighted the growing threats as a result of online radicalisation of youth through “Islamist and extreme Right-wing ideologies”. He warned of a “new era” marked by “overlapping threat” from both terrorists and state actors, and how MI5 is ad

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