Chinese -backed infiltrators “definitely” targeted Canada while stealing millions of Americans

A group of Chinese piracy that may have been stolen from all “almost” almost “almost” almost “, targeting Canadian and wireless telecommunications company, according to a warning from the e -intelligence agency in Canada.

The SALT Typhoon group is often referred to as more than ten international government agencies a joint warning of a “deliberate and sustainable campaign”.

Participated in the signing of the US -led statement by international intelligence agencies, including from the American Communications Security Corporation, Australia and Canada (CSE).

The joint consultant found that Hurricane Salt targeted “wireless and wireless communications, government, transport, housing and military infrastructure networks.”

The statement, which was released late last week, said that the stolen data “can ultimately provide Chinese intelligence services the ability to define and track their goals and movements around the world.”

Sinatia Kaiser, a former FBI for a piracy investigation, The New York Times was told She “cannot imagine that any American has survived, given the breadth of the campaign.”

While some Salt Typhoon operations were reported previously, the joint statement indicates that the range of attacks and their continuation is more than thinking.

Late last year, US agencies reported that Solt Typhonine may at risk multiple communication networks as part of a spy campaign. The American media reported that the devices used since the re -election of US President Donald Trump and his colleague JD Vance have been targeted in penetration.

The FBI now says that the group “stole the personal data that belongs to millions of Americans, and in some cases surveyed contacts – all of this to support the Chinese Communist Party.”

“Expecting privacy has been violated not only in the United States but was used worldwide,” the office said in a statement last week.

CSE did not answer CBC questions about the number of Canadians who may be washed away in the attack.

“We cannot comment on the specific or alleged internet accidents,” spokesman Jani Bandar Asselin said, but we added the attacks on the critical infrastructure mentioned in the joint statement that occurred globally.

“The People’s Republic of China provides the most advanced and active electronic threat to Canada, and we regularly make warnings, consultations and guidance about this threat.”

The Canadian Telecom Company is targeted

However, cse He made a worrying warning About Hurricane Salt earlier this year.

In June, the agency said it was “familiar with the malicious cyber activities that currently target Canadian telecommunications companies” and that the representatives sponsored by the state, especially Hurricane Al -Salt, “certainly” officials.

CSE said that these actors had at risk of network devices registered with a Canadian telecommunications company in February to enable traffic collection. It is not clear what the company was beaten and the number of Canadians who participated.

The agency, which is responsible for the intelligence of foreign signals and cybersecurity, said that the actors sponsored by the state have been constantly dangerous to the providers of telecommunications and wireless communications to extract the customer’s data in bulk and collect information about high -value goals, such as government officials.

He also said in June that the reports coming from its partners indicated that “this targeting is broader than the telecommunications sector only.”

“It is possible and/or it is likely to display the Canadian data,” said Charles Venlay, Executive Director of Cyber ​​Security Stimulus in Toronto.

“Salt Typhoon is the most advanced, most stable, and perhaps the most successful that we have so far had electronic attacks by the China government against infrastructure in other countries.”

The joint statement said that the infiltrators have been carrying out harmful operations worldwide since 2021, and they have achieved “great success” to exploit the known common weaknesses of the public and other “weaknesses that can be avoided.”

While the statement guarantees the recommendations of the mitigation of network operators, Finlay said that the medium mobile phone user does not have much defense.

“The ordinary Canadian on the street will not be able to take practical steps to defend themselves of this type of attack,” he said. “What a regular Canadian can do and should be done is the realization of this international conflict of cybersecurity.”

Parliament urged the Cyber ​​Security Center in the conversation about the defense capacity.

“What we are talking about is the space of the digital battle,” he said. “The moment of strategies has ended. It is time to work and invest.”