Canada’s Top Cybersecurity Agency Names Four Countries As ‘Greatest Strategic Threats’
The Canadian Center for Cyber Security has revealed that state-sponsored programs in China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea pose the greatest strategic threats.
In its last annual report, the agency revealed that state sponsorship is generally the most sophisticated threat to Canadians.
State-sponsored threat actors are motivated by economic, ideological, and geopolitical objectives. Its activities include cyber espionage, intellectual property theft, online influence operations and disruptive cyber attacks.
Actors are likely to try to develop cyber capabilities to disrupt critical infrastructure, such as electricity supplies, to further their goals, according to the report.
"We consider it highly unlikely, however, that cyber threat actors will intentionally seek to disrupt Canadi...
