The federal government is coping with cyberattacks this week, as a hacker group in India claims it has sowed chaos in Ottawa, but Canada's signals-intelligence agency says the 'nuisance' attacks likely haven't put private information at risk.

The federal government is coping with cyberattacks this week, as a hacker group in India claims it has sowed chaos in Ottawa, but Canada’s signals-intelligence agency says the ‘nuisance’ attacks likely haven’t put private information at risk.

  • Otter@lemmy.caMEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    The Canadian Armed Forces says its website became unavailable to mobile users midday Wednesday, but was fixed within a few hours.

    Defence Minister Bill Blair confirmed the incident was a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which is when bots swarm a website with multiple visits and cause it to stop loading properly.

    • apprehensively_human@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Funny thing is that these India controlled botnets probably have clients inside Canada, so a lot of this traffic will be from inside the country.