Canada now officially calls India an ‘adversary’ accusing it of cyber-attacks against Canadians, along with countries like China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Canada now officially calls India a ‘state adversary’, accuses India of cyber-attacks against Canadians



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  1. SS: The [National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026](https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/national-cyber-threat-assessment-2025-2026), prepared by Canadian Centre for Cyber Security lists India under the section “Cyber threat from state adversaries”. Other countries included in the list are China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

    The report states that countries like India are building cyber programs that present varying levels of threat to Canada.

    It further states, “We assess that Indian state-sponsored cyber threat actors likely conduct cyber threat activity against Government of Canada networks for the purpose of espionage. We judge that official bilateral relations between Canada and India will very likely drive Indian state-sponsored cyber threat activity against Canada.”

    The primary basis of the report appears to be this one incident, i.e. when Canada accused India of it’s involvement in the killing of Khalistani activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a pro-India hacktivist group claimed to have defaced and conducted brief DDoS attacks against websites in Canada, including the public-facing website of the Canadian Armed Forces.

  2. Anything to stay in power I guess, even if it burns your own country… What a great leader Canada has.

  3. My contrarian take is that both modi and trudeau is doing exactly what they need. I mean it plays to both the respective populace nicely.

    In Canada, Trudeau manages to deflect attention from the real stuff. Now people are more concerned about the danger from other lands.

    In India, Modi burnish his image as a strong man in the mould of Xi and Putin who will avenge India’s enemies wherever they are, even in the first world if need be, playing up RAW as the next Mossad. No Indian would shed a tear for any Canadian citizen trying to harm India.

    So both are doing each other quite good. India and Canada has barely any overlap in trade or geopolitics, so there is frankly no downside.

  5. I find so many of the takes on this situation really weird. This wasn’t a political move by Trudeau. Based on what we’ve heard there is solid five eyes intelligence that the Indian government was behind the Nijar killing and tried to do the same in the US. You just can’t do that and expect not to get called out on it, how is it acceptable? It is wild that some commentators want to imply Canada is the bad guy in this situation. JT isn’t the one who freakin murdered a guy.

  9. What’s so frightening is the complete disregard of the truth here. Indian nationalists keep prattling on about no proof being presented. That’s not true. Canada had repeatedly tried to present evidence behind closed doors, to give India an “off ramp”. But they dismissed these encounters and forced Canada to go public.

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