Analysis identifies at least 75 foreign digital operations directed at Canada, from attempts to steal COVID-19-related research to the targeting of Uyghur human rights activists.
OTTAWA - A new academic analysis has identified at least 75 foreign digital operations of a malicious political or industrial nature directed at Canada since 2010 – from attempts to steal COVID-19-related research to the targeting of Uyghur human rights activists.
The analysis focuses on what the centre considers geopolitical or strategic cyberincidents — events not primarily linked to criminal or domestic political activity but rather global rivalries and strategic competition. Cyberespionage directed at state secrets and intellectual property, as well as the targeted surveillance of individuals, accounted for 49 of the 75 incidents analyzed by the centre.
— 15 instances of information manipulation — the intentional, co-ordinated spread of false or biased information in cyberspace for hostile purposes; — four episodes of doxing — the intentional disclosure of personal information about people to humiliate, threaten or punish them. “Hackers-for-hire are often employed by authoritarian states to track political opponents, spy on NGOs and journalists or steal personal information destined to blackmail and harass dissenters,” the report says.
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