The Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) was forced to suspend its services after a series of cyberattacks that compromised the username and password of thousands of accounts. The federal government described the three separate attacks as the “credential stuffing,” which uses password and username from another website to access the CRA (D’Amore, 2020). This attack brings a unique set of challenges because they were not going through the back doors, instead applied credentials like regular users. According to Marc Brouillard, the federal government’s acting chief information officer. Detection of intrusion traffic from normal is challenging (D’Amore, 2020).
References
D’Amore, Rachael. (2020, August 17). What to know (and do) about the CRA breach and shutdown. Globalnews.ca. https://globalnews.ca/news/7281074/cra-hack-online-services/
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