Chinese state-linked cyber threat actors were responsible for recent attacks on Canadian telecommunications companies, according to Canada’s cybersecurity agency and the U.S. intelligence and security service. The incidents are part of a global cyber espionage campaign aimed at gathering intelligence data.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security and the FBI warned Canadians of the risks posed by state-sponsored cyber actors from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in a bulletin published on June 19, following compromises of Canadian entities earlier this year by a PRC-linked cyber threat actor known as Salt Typhoon.
