I really wish my colleagues from Canadian Security Intelligence Service were here to take the lead on this. From our perspective in the cybersecurity realm, our challenge really is trying to inform people, through a national cyber-threat assessment, and to say, “look for factual information.” The Internet is designed to be open and free and to allow this type of communication. From our perspective, as the cybersecurity agency, the advice we have is really to look with a wary eye and not to just trust what you're finding online. On the other hand, I think Public Safety Canada is probably better positioned to talk about some of the actions that can be taken. From my perspective, it looks like and it is legitimate Internet traffic. I don't mean to legitimize it, but I'm trying to say that it doesn't look like it's a malicious cyber-activity. It's not malware or some other aspect like that which is trying to exploit technical aspects of cybersecurity.
On December 9th, 2020. See this statement in context.