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OTTAWA — CSIS Director David Vigneault confirmed that Canada’s spy agency discovered a Canadian company’s technology was unknowingly being used in Russian drones to kill Ukrainians, sparking a “very difficult discussion” with the company.
He said that his agency discovered at one point that guidance technology from a Canadian company was being used in Russian drones to kill Ukrainians as part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion. Vigneault also said one of the biggest impediments to his agency’s work is internal culture and “finding a way for our officers or our experts to think differently.”
Overall, the threat China poses to the Western world and members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance dominated the conversation. Federal Bureau of Investigation head Christopher Wray told attendees that China’s state-run hacking program vastly exceeds those of the rest of the world. He also said that the breakneck speed at which artificial intelligence is developing is giving new and increasingly potent hacking tools to cyber threat actors.
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