The research being conducted by health authorities across the country into COVID-19 faces an 'elevated level of risk' for foreign-backed hacking or other malicious activity, say Canada's central intelligence agencies.
OTTAWA -- The research being conducted by health authorities across the country into COVID-19 faces an “elevated level of risk” for foreign-backed hacking or other malicious activity, say Canada’s central intelligence agencies.
The agencies say that they are already seeing an increased risk of foreign interference and espionage related to the work being done by Canadian researchers, and to the intellectual property and proprietary information of Canadian companies who are focused on combatting COVID-19. Both agencies say that they are “tirelessly” working to mitigate threats and have been reaching out to health organizations with tailored advice and guidance about the risks and prevention measures that can be taken such as increasing monitoring of network logs, reminding employees to be weary of suspicious emails, securing any telework practices, and ensuring critical servers are not vulnerable to cyber meddling.
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