Britain will invest £22 million ($31 million) to help vulnerable countries in Africa and the Indo-Pacific tackle cyber threats and to prevent China and Russia from filling a cyberspace vacuum, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Wednesday. In a speech four years on from the WannaCry ransomware attack, which hit the NHS and affected hospitals across England and Scotland, Raab said that hostile state actors and criminal gangs are also using technology to undermine democracy. Addressing the CyberUK conference, Raab warned that the clash between authoritarian and democratic states is “playing out very directly, right now, in cyberspace.” “You’ve got authoritarian regimes including North Korea, Iran, Russia, and China using digital tech to sabotage and steal, or to control and censor,” he said. In the last year alone, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) dealt with 723 major cybersecurity incidents, the highest figure since the agency was formed five …