OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau joined Western allies in publicly blaming China for orchestrating a far-reaching hack on Microsoft email software earlier this year, saying it was part of a “pattern of irresponsible and harmful cyberspace behaviour” by the country.
In a statement, Global Affairs Canada named as responsible China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), saying Canada and its allies are “confident” that the state intelligence agency organized the attack. The department also identified on Monday a specific regional office within the MSS that had previously targeted Canada’s defense, biopharmaceutical and oceanic technology sectors in a series of attacks in 2017 and 2018.
Canadian counterintelligence agencies, for their part, have been defending against attacks with increasing frequency. A recent report by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) said it issued more than 2,500 foreign intelligence reports in 2020 to “alert and inform” government officials across 28 departments and agencies about attempted cyber attacks.
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