OTTAWA — A top government cybersecurity official says the threat landscape has “never been worse”, with attacks happening at unprecedented numbers and levels of sophistication namely from “axis of cyber evil” states.

“It’s bad out there. It’s ugly out there when it comes to cyber,” Sami Khoury, a senior official for cyber security at the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) told attendees of an orientation session for MPs by the Parliamentary Centre on Friday.

Leaning on his 33-year career at Canada’s cyber spy agency split between working on the intelligence side and then heading the Canadian Center for Cyber Security, Khoury painted a bleak picture of the current cyber threat landscape.

Cyber criminals are coming at private and public organizations harder, better, faster and st

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