Canadian Court Grants CSIS First Warrant to Clean Botnet-Infected Devices Including Routers and IoT Gadgets
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A Federal Court ruling granted Canada's spy agency CSIS a first-of-its-kind threat reduction warrant to clean botnet-infected devices across Canada. The warrant, granted by Justice Catherine Kane in May 2024 and renewed in August, authorized CSIS to alter, degrade, and destroy botnet data on infected servers, home routers, and IoT devices (including Ring doorbells, security cameras, and smart TVs). The court found the threat to Canada was clearly established and imminent, with botnets using a command tier and infected-device relay layer to disguise foreign probing as ordinary connections to critical infrastructure, government, and military networks—with the energy sector specifically flagged. No user identities were sought, no content was intercepted, and incidental personal data was destroyed.
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No user identities sought and no content intercepted; incidental personal data was destroyed.
The botnets used a command tier and infected-device relay layer to disguise foreign probing as ordinary connections, including to critical infrastructure, government, and military networks, with the energy sector flagged among targets.
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