Canada’s cybersecurity agency’s acknowledgment that it is undertaking “foreign cyber operations” to actively disrupt cybercrime from across the world is significant because it shows Canada’s effort in fighting international cyber threats and transparency to the agency’s activities, experts say. Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said Monday that it has both the “active” (offensive) and defensive cyber tools to make it more costly for the foreign hackers behind the growing number of cybercrimes. “Although we cannot comment on our use of foreign cyber operations (active and defensive cyber operations) or provide operational statistics, we can confirm we have the tools we need to impose a cost on the people behind these kinds of incidents,” CSE spokesperson Evan Koronewski told Global News in a statement. “We can also confirm we are using these tools for such purposes, and working together with Canadian law enforcement where appropriate against cybercrime.” Christopher Parson, senior research …