Industry News: Cyber

Hackers Targeting Canadian Banks, Mining Companies, Expert Tells MPs

Written by Cybersecurity | Feb 8, 2019 8:07:21 PM

2019-02-07

NationalPost: Foreign hackers have targeted Canadian banks, mining companies and government institutions in recent years to steal valuable secrets and spread malware, a leading cybersecurity analyst warns. In February 2017, multiple major Canadian financial institutions were exposed to the risk of state-sponsored cybertheft from North Korea in a scheme to redirect people to malicious downloads that would seize control of their computer, says Christopher Porter, chief intelligence strategist at California-based security firm FireEye...

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