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Canada co-signs advisory on Chinese firm Integrity Tech enabling state hackers
The Cyber Centre and nine partners say China-based Integrity Technology Group supplies tools, botnets and infrastructure to state-linked hackers who spray passwords at Exchange servers and steal email.
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Canadian Mennonite University says tax slips with SINs were stolen in cyberattack
The Winnipeg university says an intruder detected Sept. 18 took T4, T2202 and other tax records containing social insurance numbers for current and former students and staff.
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Kingston Police say 2025 breach exposed court and ticket records on thousands
The Ontario police service says an intruder using stolen VPN credentials took about 160 GB of data in January 2025, including court dockets, bail lists and ticketing records spanning decades.
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Police dismantle KillSec ransomware group allegedly run by a 16-year-old
Operation KillSwitch seized KillSec's leak site and more than 110 terabytes of stolen data. Europol links the group to about 1,000 suspected attacks, roughly half of them successful.
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Canada's security job market in 2026: more postings, fewer doors for beginners
Canadian cybersecurity postings hit a seven-quarter high this spring, but entry-level roles stayed near four per cent. Here is what the 2026 data says about who is hiring and what they want.
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Burnaby School District confirms student and staff files stolen in ransomware attack
The B.C. district says attackers copied files with student registration records, kindergarten assessments and learning-support details after a Sept. 21 ransomware attack knocked out phones and Wi-Fi.
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Canadians' ID scans swept up in IDScan.net breach, privacy watchdog investigates
Scans of driver's licences collected by bars, hotels and other businesses using IDScan.net were stolen, and Canada's privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into the company's safeguards.
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Nipigon hospital confirms patient files stolen in September cyberattack
Nipigon District Memorial Hospital says files stolen from a network share include inpatient, emergency and long-term care records. Outpatient lab and imaging services were closed after the attack.
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Thomson Reuters unit says Ontario court files were taken in C-Track breach
C-Track Canada, a Thomson Reuters business, says an attacker obtained files from its court case management platform used by three Ontario courts, possibly including sealed records.
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Attackers exploit patched VMware vCenter flaw to install reverse SSH backdoors
A critical directory traversal flaw in the VMware vCenter Syslog server, patched July 29, was exploited against hundreds of systems in 47 countries. CISA later said ransomware gangs had joined in.
