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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    So India ordered the assassination of a Canadian official, Trudeau condemned the extra-judicial killing, and India responded by burning Canadian flags and launching cyber attacks against the Canadian military websites? Is that about right? Why is India picking fights with Canada?

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    I’m absolutely sure this hacker group definitely 100% wasn’t funded by the Modi government whatsoever mhmm uh huh for sure