Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years

[Ron / BCLUG]

A sobering report:

> A report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE)
> revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information
> from government networks for five years.
> 
> The biennial National Cyber Threat Assessment described the People's
> Republic of China's (PRC) cyber operations against Canada as "second
> to none." Their purpose is to "serve high-level political and
> commercial objectives, including espionage, intellectual property
> (IP) theft, malign influence, and transnational repression."
> 
> Over the past four years, at least 20 networks within Canadian
> government agencies and departments were compromised by PRC cyber
> threat actors.



https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/31/canada_cybersec_threats/


https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/national-cyber-threat-assessment-2025-2026#fn117-rf