Canada Agency Says Russian-Backed Actors Targeting Infrastructure

Canada Agency Says Russian-Backed Actors Targeting Infrastructure
A hooded man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected onto him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. Kacper Pempel/Reuters
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OTTAWA—Network operators of critical Canadian infrastructure should boost their defenses against Russian state-sponsored threats, Canada’s signals intelligence agency said on Thursday.

The warning from the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is the latest in a series of bulletins from Canada’s two main spy agencies accusing Russian actors of trying to hack into sensitive computer systems.