Canada
CAN
DDoS campaign disrupts Canadian airport border inspection systems
During the September 2023 DDoS campaign against Canadian institutions, the Canada Border Services Agency confirmed connectivity disruptions affecting automated inspection kiosks and electronic border-processing gates at airports. These outages caused delays in processing arriving international passengers, including at Montréal-Trudeau International Airport. CBSA reported restoration of affected systems within a few hours. The pro-Russian collective NoName057(16) claimed attacks against CBSA and other Canadian organizations, but CBSA did not independently attribute the disruption to that group. The documented consequence was degraded passenger border-processing service, not a verified interruption to commercial cargo clearance.
69
Estimated severity
69 / 100
82
Source reliability
82 / 100
Approximate Date
2023-09-15
Targeted Company
CANADA BORDER SERVICES AGENCY
Targeted Company Supply Chain Impact
Distribution & Fulfillment
Procurement & Sourcing
Production & Manufacturing
Sales (Retail & Ecommerce)
Warehousing
Service Delivery
Unrecognized Impact
Supply Chain Relations
No information
Geographic Impact
Country Targeted Company
Other Affected Countries
No other affected countries reported
Target country
Canada
Affected countries
Canada
Impacted regions
Quebec · Canada
Operational Impact
Duration
No information
Financial impact (USD M)
No information
Impact types
Operational disruptionService degradationTransportation disruption
Affected sectors
Government & Public AdministrationTransportation
Affected departments
Customer ServiceFacilities & Physical OperationsInformation Technology
Attack Profile
Attack types
Distributed denial of service
Attributed threat actors
NONAME057(16)
Sources
Incident Sources
therecord.mediahttps://therecord.media/canada-border-checkpoint-outages-ddos-attack-russiacyber.gc.cahttps://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts-advisories/distributed-denial-service-campaign-targeting-multiple-canadian-sectors?wbdisable=truecyber.gc.cahttps://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/cyber-threat-marine-transportation