Canada faces two main cybersecurity threats, according to testimony on Feb. 7 at the House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence.
These include the cyber programs of countries that are hostile to Canada, as well as cyber crimes such as ransomware attacks, MPs were told.
“The state sponsored cyber programs of Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea continue to pose the greatest strategic cyber threat to Canada,” said Sami Khoury, the head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, which is part of the Canadian Security Establishment (CSE).
“We know that Iran is using cyber criminal tools to avoid attribution. This is one of their techniques. China is going after, you know, research, technical data, business, intellectual property, military capabilities,” Khoury told MPs. “North Korea is very much interested in enhancing its economic value by stealing credentials and then stealing funds. So they each have a motivation to conduct those activities … to further their own interest.”…