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Ransomware remains a major cybersecurity threat in Canada. Attackers can encrypt business data, disrupt operations, and threaten to release stolen information.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security assesses ransomware as the top cybercrime threat facing Canada's critical infrastructure and expects ransomware actors to continue evolving their extortion techniques.
Businesses should:
Phishing attacks attempt to trick employees into clicking malicious links, revealing credentials, or transferring information. Business email compromise can also involve impersonating executives, suppliers, or customers.
The Cyber Centre reports that phishing is one of the most commonly reported forms of fraud in Canada and that AI tools are making phishing messages easier to personalize and produce at scale.
Businesses should provide regular employee security awareness training and use email security controls, MFA, and verification procedures for sensitive requests.
Artificial intelligence is becoming a tool for both legitimate businesses and cybercriminals. Attackers can use AI to create more convincing phishing messages, automate content generation, analyze information, and support social engineering.
The Cyber Centre assesses that AI is lowering barriers to malicious activity and improving the quality, scale, and precision of some cyber threats.
Businesses should establish clear policies for using AI tools and avoid entering confidential customer, financial, or business information into AI services without appropriate approval and safeguards.
Compromised passwords can give attackers access to email, cloud applications, financial systems, and other business resources.
To reduce this risk:
Microsoft 365 administrators should receive particular attention because compromised administrative accounts can provide extensive access to business resources.
Attackers frequently look for weaknesses in outdated operating systems, applications, plugins, network equipment, and internet-facing services.
Create a patch management process that identifies vulnerable systems, prioritizes important updates, and replaces software that is no longer supported.
Regular vulnerability assessments can also help identify weaknesses before attackers discover them.
A business can be affected by a cybersecurity incident involving one of its technology providers. Cloud platforms, software vendors, IT providers, website providers, and other suppliers may have access to business systems or information.
The Cyber Centre identifies increasing vendor concentration and supply-chain attacks as important trends in Canada's cyber threat environment.
Businesses should review important vendors and understand what information and systems each provider can access.
Cyberattacks do not always involve destroying systems. Attackers may attempt to steal customer information, employee information, financial records, intellectual property, or other sensitive data.
Quebec organizations should understand their responsibilities for protecting personal information and responding to confidentiality incidents. The Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec provides guidance for organizations handling personal information.
Businesses should identify sensitive information, restrict access, use appropriate security controls, and establish procedures for responding to potential privacy incidents.
Websites and online applications can become entry points for attackers when software, plugins, credentials, or configurations are not properly maintained.
Businesses should:
Security risks can also originate inside an organization. An employee, contractor, or compromised account may have access to information that is not necessary for their role.
Apply the principle of least privilege and regularly review permissions. When employees leave the company, promptly disable their accounts and recover company devices and access credentials.
One of the biggest challenges for a business is not knowing what to do when an incident occurs.
A cybersecurity incident response plan should define:
Technology news is most useful when it helps you decide what to change in your own environment. Use this Knowledge Center article as a practical briefing: identify whether the issue affects your stack, who on your team should own follow-up, and what evidence you need before you commit budget or vendor changes.
For topics related to Cybersecurity & Privacy, TechPam recommends documenting current controls, confirming patch and backup status, and reviewing access paths that expose customer or employee data. Even when a story is about another company, the same failure patterns often appear in small and mid-sized businesses that run lean IT teams.
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