CSE has previously warned that Russian actors looking to disrupt critical services ‘for psychological impact’
Catharine Tunney · CBC News
Hmm linked to the Rogers outage reported earlier?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Canada’s electronic intelligence agency is warning the Canadian cyber community — especially operators of government and critical infrastructure websites — to be vigilant as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits the country.
“We have observed that it’s not uncommon to see increased distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaigns against NATO countries that support Ukraine, or host visits from Ukrainian government officials,” said a warning from the Communications Security Establishment.
Zelenskyy touched down in Ottawa late Thursday for a two-day visit which will see him address Parliament before heading to Toronto for a meeting with the business community.
Earlier this summer it warned that Russia-aligned non-state threat actors will likely continue their attempts to compromise the country’s oil and gas sector until the war in Ukraine ends.
Pro-Russian hackers have taken credit for knocking Canadian government websites offline in the past, including the page for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office.
“In case anyone was wondering, Russia being able to bring down an official government of Canada web page for a few hours is in no way going to dissuade us from our unshakable support of Ukraine,” Trudeau said at the time.
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