Call for a quick-reaction group follows warnings by the cybersecurity agencies that sanctions on Russia could expose them to cybercrime.
Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is pressing G7 countries to establish a quick-reaction group on cybersecurity to help build up resilience to attacks following the invasion of Ukraine.
Champagne’s call for a quick-reaction group follows warnings by the cybersecurity agencies of Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and New Zealand – known as the Five Eyes – that sanctions on Russia could expose them to cybercrime. He said the G7, which includes the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, discussed learning from what has happened in Ukraine as well as the experiences of other nations subjected to cyberattacks.
Canada’s Security Intelligence Service warned in a public report published last week that “Canada remains a target for malicious cyber-enabled espionage, sabotage, foreign influence, and terrorism-related activities which pose significant threats to Canada’s national security, its interests and its economic stability.”
Last year, state-sponsored actors from China “engaged in the unprecedented and indiscriminate exploitation of Microsoft Exchange servers, putting several thousand Canadians entities at risk,” the report said.
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