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Cyberattacks hit military, Parliament websites as India hacker group targets Canada (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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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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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

"Hacker group" may give off the idea that something was broken into lol

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.ca 10 points 11 months 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.