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North Korea-associated advanced persistent threat group TA406, aka Kimsuky or Thallium, has ramped up its cyberespionage operations in 2021, targeting diplomats and
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The attack saw hackers exploit weaknesses in Microsoft Exchange email servers, with the federal government estimating 400,000 servers were compromised before the online assault and server vulnerabilities were revealed in March.
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“This activity put several thousand Canadian entities at risk a risk that persists in some cases even when patches from Microsoft have been applied,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said in the statement.
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In a statement, Global Affairs Canada named as responsible China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), saying Canada and its allies are “confident” that the state intelligence agency organized the attack. The department also identified on Monday a specific regional office within the MSS that had previously targeted Canada’s defence, biopharmaceutical and oceanic technology sectors in a series of attacks in 2017 and 2018.
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The statement follows the massive and unusually indiscriminate hack of Microsoft email software earlier this year, which infiltrated an estimated 400,000 servers and caused widespread forced shutdowns of government and corporate operations.