Following a warning by the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and Canada’s Five Eyes allies of a “significant threat” from a state-sponsored actor associated with the People’s Republic of China, a cybersecurity expert says the rarity of the alert means it should be taken very seriously in Canada.
“It’s a fairly rare thing to put out something like this so publicly and, of course, it runs a risk of frightening people, and we probably have good reasons to be frightened,” Thomas Patrick Keenan, a professor at the University of Calgary, told The Epoch Times.
On May 24, the Cyber Centre, which is part of the Communications Security Establishment, joined its Five Eyes partners of Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States to issue an advisory warning of an actor targeting critical infrastructure operators in the United States….