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STATEMENT FROM THE MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENCE – CYBER THREATS TO CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE

From: Communications Security Establishment Canada


STATEMENT

Since Russia’s unjustified and illegal invasion of Ukraine began over one year
ago, and especially in recent weeks, we have seen a notable rise in cyber threat
activity by Russian-aligned actors targeting Ukraine’s partners.

Since Russia’s unjustified and illegal invasion of Ukraine began over one year
ago, and especially in recent weeks, we have seen a notable rise in cyber threat
activity by Russian-aligned actors targeting Ukraine’s partners.

Canada is no exception. These activities are a direct response to our steadfast
support to the people and Government of Ukraine – and they will not deter
Canada’s support for Ukraine.

This malicious cyber activity is frequently directed at critical infrastructure
networks, and technology used to run vital sectors. Threat actors have also used
strategically-timed Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS) against
government and business web sites.

To help organizations mitigate the impact of DDoS attacks, the Communications
Security Establishment (CSE) and its Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber
Centre) released a Cyber Flash to partners within the Government of Canada and
critical Canadian sectors on April 12. This Cyber Flash was released to share
known facts about this ongoing campaign. We continue to monitor, reassess and
respond to this campaign, and may release further products at a later time if
warranted.

CSE works every day to defend government systems from threats. On any given day,
CSE’s defensive systems can block anywhere from 3 to 5 billion malicious actions
targeting government networks. These defensive actions are a result of CSE’s
dynamic cyber defence capabilities which remain ready to defend government
systems and protect against future attacks.

In addition, Canadian organizations and critical infrastructure operators – who
operate the systems on which we depend every day – must be prepared to protect
against known cyber threats.

Previously the Cyber Centre has warned Canadian organizations to be prepared for
cyber threat actors to try to disrupt, deface, and exploit Canadian network
assets. If you run the critical systems that power our communities, offer
internet access to Canadians, provide health care, or generally operate any of
the services Canadians can’t do without, you must protect your systems. Monitor
your networks. Apply mitigations.

I urge Canadian critical infrastructure organizations to review the Cyber
Centre’s Cyber Threat Bulletin: Cyber Threats to Operational Technology and
follow this advice:

 * Isolate CI components and services from the internet when under imminent
   threat, such as a ransomware incident or denial of service attack
 * Use secure administrative workstations to separate sensitive tasks and manage
   administrative privileges and accounts
 * Implement network security zones to control and restrict both access and data
   communication flows to certain components and users
 * Test manual controls to ensure critical functions can operate if your network
   is unavailable
 * Identify, separate, and monitor your information technology (IT) and
   operational technology (OT) networks
 * Test OT, including industrial control systems (ICS), as part of your incident
   response plan to ensure critical functions can operate during an outage or
   cyber incident
 * Protect your organization against denial-of-service attacks

The Cyber Centre shares valuable cyber threat information with Canadian critical
infrastructure and government partners through protected channels. This vital
information includes indicators of compromise (IoCs), threat mitigation advice,
and confidential alerts about new forms of malware, and other tactics,
techniques, and procedures used to target victims. It’s the kind of information
you can use to protect your organization.

In addition to the advice above for critical sectors, the Cyber Centre urges
Canadian organizations to take note of the following cyber security guidance:  

 * Joint cyber security advisory on Russian state-sponsored and criminal cyber
   threats to critical infrastructure
 * The Cyber Centre’s Top 10 IT security actions to protect internet connected
   networks and information including to Consolidate, monitor, and defend
   Internet gateways; Isolate web-facing applications; segment and separate
   information; protect information at the enterprise level; and implement
   application allow lists
 * The Cyber Centre’s Top 10 IT security actions
 * Joint Cyber Security Advisory Technical approaches to uncovering and
   remediating malicious activity
 * Review perimeter network systems to determine if any suspicious activity has
   occurred
 * Review and implement preventative actions outlined within the Cyber Centre’s
   guidance on protecting your organization against denial of service attacks
 * Report any cyber incidents to the Cyber Centre

You are the first line of defence in keeping your organizations, and Canadians,
safe from cyber threats.

Together we will help keep Canada safe

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