Canada's domestic food production system may actually be one of the most glaring cracks in Canada's national defences. Farms are now complex technical operations that theoretically could be commandeered and held for ransom in a cyberattack. cdnpoli
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.“The interruption of the global food supply is not collateral damage from the war in Ukraine,” Yulia Klymenko, a Ukrainian MP who is first deputy chair of the transport and infrastructure committee, told Canadian lawmakers in June 2022. “It is a planned hybrid weapon to further massively destabilize the global economy and political order.”Not all hackers are interested in using their exploits to destabilize an economy, however.
John Hewie, a national security officer at Microsoft Corp., said on top of state-sponsored hacking, the cybercrime landscape now includes sophisticated crime syndicates that focus on “big-game hunting” — the sort of attacks where a hacker takes control of a system or data from a major business and asks for a steep ransom to get them back.
But so-called big game, such as Maple Leaf or Empire, isn’t the only vulnerability in the food chain. Even attacks on single farms could have an impact, Hewie said, if a cyberattack targets enough of them. It doesn’t have to be as dramatic as threatening to kill livestock, Brown said. Sometimes the target of ransomware attacks can be as simple as financial data that a hacker steals and refuses to give back without a fee. The payouts can range from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. In Brown’s experience, the cyberattacker has monitored the operation for months before they strike, so they know precisely how much the farm can afford in ransom.
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