Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years 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." …
Hey, cyber attacks seem to be the talk of the town here these days in Canuckland, since before I got here last week. On top of this PRC living-off-the-land (LOTL) cyber-squatting, there's also been (among others) 10,000+ tax accounts hacked and more than CAD$500,000 ransoms paid by businesses to cyberthugs. Feels like an epidemics!
Good to see the ElReg reporting on this here digital apocanucklypse!
Canada is a terrorist country. The terrorist and drug dealer (and not an activist as claimed in this article), was a Canadian citizen. He escaped India on a fake passport. Any rule based country would have deported that guy right away but not the terrorist sympathiser Canada under the leadership of Turd-o, who readily gave citizenship to that guy. He was killed as a result of his gang/drug related activities. But the rule abiding Turd-o is sensing opportunities here to to gain votes by blaming India.
Dislike this comment as much as you want. It'd only reinforce the point that the holier than thou attitude of West has to change. What has worked for West in the past will not work in today's multipolar world.
Just look up the PRISM program run by the NSA. All software or electronics that contain American technology will have backdoor access to your data by the US. That could be Google (YouTube...), Apple products, social media....This is why they're desperate to force Tik Tok to sell an American company.
Given the widely publicised links between various Canadian politicians & officials and certain countries - including straight up espionage/treason - it's just as likely the attackers were let straight in through the front door as having broken in.
Canada is a definite target and it's also deeply compromised, and its Government from the top down seems to have little interest in fixing that.
The Indian Intelligence assassination campaign in Canada was based out of their US diplomatic offices. They had intended to kill a number of other opponents of the Indian government in the US as well, but "hit man" they contracted to do the job in the US turned out to in reality be a police agent, so the Americans got the whole set of communications between Indian intelligence and the "hit man" in the US. The hit man India hired in Canada (via their US operations) however turned out to be the genuine article and went through with the job.
The Americans shared their information with Canada after the fact, so there's really not any doubt about what went on. A US based Sikh organization were promoting an unofficial "independence referendum" amongst Sikh expats, and the Canadian Sikh murdered was their Canadian contact for this. The assassination campaign was intended to wipe out the US and Canadian people involved in this.
India's main issues with Canada are there are a very large number of Sikhs in Canada (the largest Sikh population outside of India), and a few of them are involved in promoting the idea of an independent Sikh state carved out of Punjab. The other major issue was the Indian farmer protests were very big in Canada among Indian immigrants (the usual immigrant politics) and apparently Modi felt they were making his government look bad abroad. Modi had demanded that Canada arrest and imprison the protesters, but Canada had refused, protesting being legal in Canada.
Canadian security are busy following up on a number of other murders in which India are believed to be involved. Apparently India hires ethnically Indian based crime gangs to do their dirty work so they can then claim the targets were simply the victims of ordinary crimes (extortion, murder, etc.). This is their standard line when confronted on this. However, the evidence the Americans have and have shared with Canada is pretty iron clad, on top of other Five Eyes sources. From the sounds of it, either the US or the UK have been heavily hacking Indian diplomatic communications and IT infrastructure channels and have a mass of intelligence. The hacking has not been all one way.
India has responded to the US on these issues with profuse apologies and great deference. Their response to Canada on the same issues has been one of belligerence and denial that they had anything to do with it. I suspect the difference in response in this case has to do with the relative size and power of the US versus Canada and Indian and US diplomatic strategy in Asia. American police authorities in New York are apparently filing criminal charges against one or more Indian officials, which may throw a wrench in the works of attempts to sweep this all under the carpet.
People who find all this surprising should realize that India are a rising power and future great power and will act in their own interests as far as they can get away with it. Being a democracy or a fellow Commonwealth member has no bearing on how they act in the world.
As for the Chinese threat, what actually has Canadian MPs concerned isn't traditional espionage, it's people saying nasty things about them on Wechat accounts during election campaigns. That's the thing they want stopped. MPs are much less exercised over any computer nonsense.
The five eyes had been desperate to gain access to gain intelligence on China after the US saw all of their agents executed for spying. They even spy on their own closet allies. So why not China?
Apparently, the US has been an open book for China for decades. Isn't this the narrative? If that's the case then what can Canada do about it?
In all likelihood, this is probably part of the $1.6 billion anti China propaganda approved by the US about a month ago to one of their agencies. Who knows what the total extent is worth. Just more evidence that their media as well as any other around the world with US influence can be bought and paid for when it's convenient.
If the CanUhDuhians think that China is the ONLY country that's achieved penetration or that it's ONLY their "opponents" which have achieved it, I have a few border crossings to sell them
It wasn't China, Russia, India or any of the other Usual Suspects which was listening into Angela Merkel's phone calls and I'll guarantee that if Justin Trudeau even farts funny the neighbour down south will know about his potential bowel cancer status long before he suspects anything is amiss himself.
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