Canada’s electronic spy agency says it’s used its arsenal to try and stop foreign extremists from recruiting Canadians and sharing violent material online.
The acknowledgement is nestled in the Communications Security Establishment’s annual report made public Tuesday, which points to recent cases where it flexed its cyber muscles.
While the details are largely sanitized in the report, the examples shed some light on how the foreign signals intelligence agency has been using the “active” cyber capabilities granted to it by the Liberal government in 2019.
