After another orchestrated outage on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s site on Saturday, the pro-Russian group NoName claimed responsibility for two new cyberattacks on Sunday against Canadian organizations, including the Port of Montreal.
“We are not forgetting Canada,” the collective again indicated on the social network Telegram, announcing that the Port of Montreal website had again been targeted by a cyberattack. By late morning, however, access to the site appeared to have been restored, with the organization’s digital services mostly accessible.
Montreal Port Authority spokesperson Renée Larouche confirms that an “interruption of services from our external site” was observed for approximately 60 minutes on Sunday morning.
“That said, like last time, our firewalls did the job very well. There was no stoppage of our operations, nor any consequences. Everything is restored now,” said Mr.me Larouche, whose group had already been targeted for the first time by NoName in recent weeks.
According to our information, the first attack mainly targeted the IP address, whereas this time it was precisely the domain name of the Port of Montreal that was the target of the cyberpirates.
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“We are not forgetting Canada,” said the NoName collective on the Telegram social network, announcing that the Port of Montreal’s website had again been targeted by a cyberattack.
The group also claimed Sunday an attack against the Canadian Transportation Agency, whose website was still paralyzed in the middle of the day. On Telegram, NoName had clearly indicated to send this website in “blackout” for an indefinite period.
For the rest, the other attacks of NoName seemed to concentrate Sunday in Poland, attacks having in particular been orchestrated against companies and banks in this country of central Europe.
“Hacktivists”
Earlier on Saturday, the collective had made it impossible to access the Prime Minister of Canada’s website intermittently. The Hamilton-Oshawa Port-Authority website was also affected by the attack, as was the Canadian Senate website, which was however quickly restored.
Less than ten days ago, these same pro-Russian hackers had claimed responsibility for other cyberattacks in Canada, including one against Hydro-Québec and against the Prime Minister’s site. In this second case, the attack occurred when Justin Trudeau received his Ukrainian counterpart, Denys Chmyhal, in Toronto.
“Let me be extremely clear: the fact that for a few hours there was a government page that was difficult to access is not going to deter us from being present and always there to do more to support the ‘Ukraine “, then hammered Justin Trudeau.
Another hacker group, Black Basta, claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the Yellow Pages. Copies of passports, RAMQ cards, statements of account and driver’s license: The Press found on the hidden web samples of stolen confidential information, in particular from Quebecers.
The NoName collective is similar to what experts call “hacktivists”: politically motivated computer hackers. On its Telegram account, the collective has notably denounced in recent weeks a cooperation mechanism that Canada has proposed with the United States, Japan and South Korea to deal with the alliance between Russia and China. This alliance is called to “strengthen” after “such Russophobic initiatives”, the pirates had declared.