Foreign Spies Using Networking Sites to Groom UK Officials: MI5

Foreign Spies Using Networking Sites to Groom UK Officials: MI5
MI5 Director General Ken McCallum in an undated file photo. Yui Mok/PA
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Foreign spies have extended their dark arts to the world of online networking sites and are targeting politicians, business chiefs, and academics, the head of Britain’s security service has warned.

Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said hostile agents are using so-called “disguised approaches” on an industrial scale to build relationships  to gain national security information.