2023-06-17 04:17:56
This warning concerns particularly operators of government websites and critical infrastructure
point out in a statement released Friday the agencies that oversee cybersecurity for the federal government, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and the Canadian Center for Cyber Security.
Malicious Cyber Threat Writers Seeking Russian Interests Have Publicly Declared Their Intent to Target Countries United in Support of Ukraine’s Defense Against Russian Attacks and Aggressions
indicates the text.
« The Center for Cybersecurity continues to remind [aux] Operators of government websites and critical infrastructure to be extra vigilant and implement necessary measures to protect against malicious cyber threats. »
“No money, no Ukrainian regime”
In an unusual move, three hacker groups, KillNet, Anonymous Sudan and REvil, announced in a video that they were joining forces to carry out a major cyberattack against the Swift Financial System, a banking communication platform used by thousands of financial institutions around the world.
The three groups say, in this video released online on Wednesday, that they intend to target this system in the United States and Europehours”,”text”:”in the next 48 hours”}}”>over the next 48 hours.
If God rules Russia, who rules Europe?
asks a man wearing a mask and whose voice has been altered. That’s it! The banking system. No money, no guns, no Ukrainian regime
the voice continues, implying that it is a threat in retaliation for the support of Western countries for kyiv in its conflict with Russia.
In an email, a spokesperson for the CST claims that the warning issued on Friday is a reaction
to these threats. The three hacker groups are best known for their impressive distributed denial of service attacks. distributed denial-of-serviceor DDoS), which consists of making a server unavailable by overloading it with requests and taking it out of service.
Last April, many Canadian ports were the target of this type of attack.
Relationships at the bottom
The Canadian Center for Cyber Security calls any Canadian organization that believes it has been the target of a cyber threat
communicate with it through its website, which also contains a lot of information and advice for detecting malicious activities and protecting yourself against them.
The Swift system (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is a secure messaging platform that allows operations such as the transit of payment orders or transfers of funds between banks.
In March 2022, the European Union disconnected several Russian banks from this system, which has around 11,000 members and has no real competitor in the world. China created another network – still small at this stage, according to European officials – and despite the existence of a Russian system called SPFS, Swift was still used for around 70% of transactions in Russia itself.
These threats come as relations between Moscow and Ottawa are at an all-time low due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine since February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky greets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 10, 2023.
Photo : via reuters / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Ukraine last weekend, where he announced that Canada had officially seized a plane that had been parked on the tarmac at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport since February 2022.
The Antonov An-124, registered in Russia, belongs to the Volga-Dnepr company, which Canada sanctioned in April. It is one of the biggest planes in the world, and Ottawa fears that Russia will use it to deliver military equipment for its invasion of Ukraine.
In response, Russian authorities, who say the plane landed in Toronto to deliver COVID-19 tests, called the seizure a cynical and shameless theft
.
The Russian side warns that the practical implementation of this decision will lead to the most serious repercussions for Russian-Canadian relations, which are already on the verge of breaking down
reacted the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release.
So far, Canada has promised to provide the Ukrainian forces with some 50 air defense missiles and a surface-to-air missile system purchased at a cost of $406 million from the United States. The government has also delivered eight Leopard tanks, dozens of armored vehicles and thousands of artillery shells, among others.
Since February 2022, Canada has committed to providing military assistance worth over $1 billion.
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