The Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) released its 2025-2026 Annual Report, outlining the work of CSE and its Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) from April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026. The full release is available online. Contact media@cse-cst.gc.ca.
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre), part of the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), is urging organizations across Canada to take action on emerging cyber risks linked to frontier artificial intelligence (AI). Our National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026 and Ransomware Threat Outlook 2025-2027 assess that AI is also lowering barriers to entry for malicious cyber activity. AI also introduces risks … Read more
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (the Cyber Centre) launched the Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Escalated Threat Navigation (CIREN) initiative. CIREN helps critical infrastructure (CI) organizations understand, prepare for and practice responding to severe cyber incidents. Its purpose is to help organizations maintain essential services during worst-case scenarios, including widespread and prolonged cyber disruptions. CIREN outlines three key … Read more
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) released its Ransomware Threat Outlook 2025 to 2027, its latest assessment of ransomware threats facing Canada. The Cyber Centre’s report covers the early history of ransomware, highlights emerging and projected trends, outlines its impact on Canada and Canadian organizations, and debunks common myths and misconceptions. The full release is … Read more
Minister of National Defence David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Ont.) and Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree (Scarborough—Guildwood—Rouge Park, Ont.) issued a statement: “Malicious cyber activity targeting Canada’s critical infrastructure—like power, water, health, finance and transportation—are on the rise and are a real and urgent threat. These malicious activities are conducted by both cyber threat actors … Read more
Minister of National Defence David McGuinty (Ottawa South, Ont.) issued a statement: “It’s no secret that cyber threats are becoming more common, more complex and more disruptive. Malicious actors looking to serve their own objectives, turn a profit or impact our way of life, exploit our systems and data to achieve their goals. While the … Read more
The Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) are funding a new research community focused on exploratory analysis of unstructured data. Led by Professor Benjamin Fung of McGill University, the $5.6-million project—ZenithVector—aims to develop advanced tools for understanding and visualizing large datasets such as text, code, … Read more
The Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE) released its unclassified Annual Report for 2024 to 2025. The report contains an overview of activities conducted by CSE and its Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) from 2024 to 2025. The full release is available online. Contact media@cse-cst.gc.ca.
The Communications Security Establishment Canada has released an update on the cyber threats facing Canada’s democratic process. This 2025 report highlights the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) by foreign adversaries to target elections worldwide, including in Canada. The report outlines the following key findings: Foreign actors, particularly those affiliated with Russia and the People’s Republic … Read more
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) published a report that outlines how Iranian cyber threat actors zero in on targets, with the goal of accessing information of political, economic, or military intelligence value to Iran. In the report, the Cyber Centre assesses that Iranian cyber threat actors are using sophisticated social engineering methods to enhance … Read more
