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Spy agency flags possible security breaches at Canadian pandemic research facilities | CBC News

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May 21, 2020
Spy agency flags possible security breaches at Canadian pandemic research facilities | CBC News

Canada’s cyber spy agency says authorities are investigating possible security breaches at Canadian organizations doing COVID-19-related research — less than a week after it warned that Canadian intellectual property linked to the pandemic is a “valuable target” for state-sponsored actors.

The CSE has warned that sophisticated threat actors could target Canadian medical research labs working on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. (Bonnie Allen/CBC)

Canada’s cyber spy agency says authorities are investigating possible security breaches at Canadian organizations doing COVID-19-related research — less than a week after it warned that Canadian intellectual property linked to the pandemic is a “valuable target” for state-sponsored actors.

“We’ve seen some compromises in research organizations that we’ve been helping to mitigate and we’re still continuing to look through what’s the root cause of those,” said Scott Jones, head of the Communications Security Establishment’s Cyber Centre, during an appearance in front of the Commons industry, science and technology committee this evening.

“Yes, we’ve seen activity coming from organizations where they’ve seen malicious activity, or at least suspicious [activity], and we’re working with them to determine whether or not it was malicious, where it came from and who, and was a success or not.”

Watch: The CSE’s Scott Jones on the threat of data breaches at Canadian pandemic research labs

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