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Executive Summary Canada is confronting an increasingly complex and aggressive cyber threat landscape, characterized by a growing array of state and non-state actors targeting national security and critical infrastructure. State adversaries are evolving beyond traditional espionage, pre-positioning within critical networks for potential future disruptive attacks and combining cyber operations with
On January 7, 2026, a threat actor operating under the alias "Solonik" dropped a dataset titled "INSTAGRAM.COM 17M GLOBAL USERS — 2024 API LEAK" on BreachForums. The dump contained approximately 17.5 million records including usernames, display names, email addresses, phone numbers, and partial physical addresses—
The $10.22 Million Question It's 3:47 AM. Your security operations center (or worse, your email) alerts you: "Suspicious activity detected. Possible data exfiltration." Your next 72 hours will determine whether you're looking at: * Best case: $500,000 in containment and notification costs
Investigation underway as FBI-reported incident raises questions about timing and academic freedom The peer-reviewed oncology journal Oncotarget has been taken offline by what its editorial team describes as a targeted cyberattack, occurring just days after publishing a comprehensive review examining reported cases of cancer following COVID-19 vaccination. The timing has