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Ben Bradshaw, a former Cabinet minister, called on world leaders to “wake up” to the scale of cyber warfare being waged by Vladimir Putin. He suggested the EU referendum was successfully targeted by Russian hackers.

PARLIAMENT.TV Labour MP Ben Bradshaw told the House of Commons to 'wake up' to the threat of Russian hackers

Speaking during an emergency House of Commons debate on Syria, where Russian forces have aided the country’s dictator Bashar al-Assad in a brutal siege of rebel-held city Aleppo, Mr Bradshaw warned MPs of the growing threat of Russia. The Exeter MP said: “I don't think we have even begun to wake up to what Russia is doing when it comes to cyber warfare. "Not only their interference, now proven, in the American presidential campaign, probably in our own referendum last year. "We don't have the evidence for that yet, but I think it's highly probable.”

We don't have the evidence for that yet, but I think it's highly probable. Labour MP Ben Bradshaw

Mr Bradshaw claimed Moscow-backed agents will also be “involved” in next year’s French and German elections, as he told MPs: "We've got to wake up to this." US authorities recently assessed Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping President-elect Donald Trump successfully defeat Hillary Clinton in the battle for the White House. And, earlier this week, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said there was "a disturbing pattern" of allegations against Russia around cyber warfare, pointing to examples in Bulgaria, a recent referendum in the Netherlands and its continuing pressure on the Baltic states.

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