Canada Grapples With 'Second-to-None' PRC-Backed Threat Actors

Canada's National Cyber Threat Assessment warns that PRC state-backed actors have collected data from Canadian government networks for the past five years and have breached at least 20 government agencies. The assessment characterizes these actors as highly sophisticated and active, notes that compromised federal networks were remediated but remain familiar to adversaries who may reattempt access, and flags growing complexity and risk to critical infrastructure alongside network attacks, information operations, and ransomware as principal threats.