{"id":57542,"date":"2024-10-31T05:34:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T05:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/chinese-attackers-accessed-canadian-government-networks-for-five-years\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T05:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T05:34:23","slug":"chinese-attackers-accessed-canadian-government-networks-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/chinese-attackers-accessed-canadian-government-networks-for-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks \u2013 for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

A report by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years.<\/p>\n

The biennial National Cyber Threat Assessment<\/a> described the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) cyber operations against Canada as “second to none.” Their purpose is to “serve high-level political and commercial objectives, including espionage, intellectual property (IP) theft, malign influence, and transnational repression.”<\/p>\n

Over the past four years, at least 20 networks within Canadian government agencies and departments were compromised by PRC cyber threat actors.<\/p>\n