Canadian spy agency reports hacking three criminal groups in 2025
2026-07-07T02:51:51Z•5c1a3a4d3572470dc617ffd686798e0655cf8f3f9c5920430fbb4604154adee0
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What happened
A batch of 2026 reports highlights diverse high-impact cyber incidents: Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) disclosed offensive operations in 2025 against three criminal groups — a ransomware-as-a-service gang, an online foreign extremist group, and drug traffickers. BonkDAO suffered a governance attack where holders used voting leverage to divert roughly $20 million in BONK tokens. A major medical device manufacturer notified nearly 4 million people that sensitive data, including Social Security numbers and health-related information, was accessed. In Japan a teen exploited a
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