Canada’s Spy Agency Used First-of-Its-Kind Warrant to Clean Botnet-Infected Devices

Canada's security service (CSIS) received judicial authorization to remotely neutralize two foreign-operated botnets infecting Canadian servers, home/office routers, and IoT devices (e.g., doorbells, cameras). The court found an imminent national-security threat — including possible probes of the energy sector — and approved altering and deleting botnet data while stressing the operation targeted devices not people; the ruling is partially redacted and leaves the precise adversary attribution (Chinese, Russian, or mixed) unclear.