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
    26·
    1 year ago

    “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.caEnglish
      9·
      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.