According to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), it is almost exactly twenty years old (in the UK at least). The NCSC is an offshoot on the the UK’s signal intelligence agency, GCHQ. In a statement released on its website at the end of June, the NCSC revealed that the first time GCHQ was called in to deal with a cyber attack against a UK government department by a foreign power was June 2003. So, now you know.
