Canada’s Cyber Security Agency Warns of China’s ‘Repeated’ Attacks on All Levels of Government

A hacker uses his computer in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong Province, on Aug. 4, 2020. Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images

Canada’s cybersecurity agency is warning regional and local governments about cyber espionage by the Chinese regime, citing repeated and ongoing attempts to infiltrate all levels of government to access sensitive information on decision-making, regional affairs, and Canadians’ personal data.

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) “almost certainly” poses the “greatest ongoing” cyber espionage threat to Canada, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security said in a bulletin updated on March 4.