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State-sponsored hackers from China have been targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, cybersecurity officials from around the world, including Canada, warned Wednesday in a co-ordinated effort to root out the perpetrators.

Canada's spy service warns that adversaries will turn to espionage and foreign interference tactics to target the country's increasingly important artificial-intelligence sector.

The expansion of cyberspace makes it easier for foreign adversaries to pilfer valuable secrets, says a senior official at Canada's spy service.

Internal government briefing notes warn Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that economic-based national security threats — from espionage to cyberattacks — pose "significant risks" to Canada's post-pandemic recovery, long-term prosperity and competitiveness.

A CSIS investigation concluded that money, ego and career frustrations were the likely reasons a veteran RCMP officer passed highly sensitive secrets to Russian intelligence for years, newly disclosed records reveal.

The United States has laid out a case against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou that shows her actions meet the classic definition of "commercial dishonesty," said a lawyer for Canada's attorney general, as her case entered its final stage in the B.C. Supreme Court.

The Conservatives want to know what federal officials are doing about China's alleged involvement in stealing data from thousands of Canadians.

The diplomatic tensions between Canada and China took what Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland styled on Friday, August 2, 2019, as a positive step after she finally landed a face-to-face meeting with her Chinese counterpart to talk about two Canadians being detained in China.

An external review of the extradition of Ottawa academic Hassan Diab has concluded that federal lawyers on the case did their jobs ethically and within the law.

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney says the government should enlist a former prime minister to lead a high-powered delegation to China to win the release of two imprisoned Canadians — but not him.

External Affairs Minister Joe Clark didn't try to sugarcoat it for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and their cabinet colleagues.

A Chinese telecommunication company secretly diverted Canadian internet traffic to China, particularly from Rogers subscribers in the Ottawa area, says an Israeli cybersecurity specialist.

Canadian companies should watch out when they use technology supplied by state-owned companies from countries that want to steal corporate secrets, the country's security agencies have warned them.

Canada is not properly protecting diplomats and staff who face security threats at Canadian missions abroad, including many at high risk for terrorist attacks, violence and espionage, according to the federal auditor general.

Western countries weighed punitive actions against Russia following a chemical attack in England, which has heightened international tensions with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau describing the act as despicable on Wednesday, March 14, 2018.