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Hackers target potash industry
Intruders posed as first nations group, security intelligence source says
BY IAN MACLEOD, POSTMEDIA NEWSOCTOBER 29, 2011
Saskatchewan's potash industry was the target of January's unprecedented cyber theft of classified federal data, the Ottawa Citizen has learned.
The foreign hackers posed online as an aboriginal group to gain access to the Finance Department and Treasury Board networks, says a security intelligence source familiar with the case.
The intruders then sent emails to high-ranking department officials containing a link to a webpage infected with a sophisticated virus. It then opened a pathway deep into the government networks and installed spy malware.
They also sent infected PDF files that, when opened, unleashed more malicious code to target and download government secrets.
"They were after [information about] the potash industry," said the source.
To lure officials to open the malicious emails, "they pretended to be an aboriginal group," he said.
The "spear-phishing" attacks are widely believed to have been perpetrated using servers in China.
The Chinese government denies involvement.
The federal government has publicly downplayed the extent of the espionage, though a Jan. 31 government memo revealed, "data has been exfiltrated and that privileged accounts have been compromised."
Spokeswomen for Finance and Treasury said Friday that as a matter of course that the departments do not comment on specific incidents or security measures and would not confirm that intruders posed online as an aboriginal group to steal sensitive data on the potash industry.
Three months before the attacks, on Nov. 4, 2010, the federal government rejected a proposed takeover of Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan Inc. by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton, which proposed to acquire Potash for $38.6 billion US.
The government deemed the offer not to be in Canada's best interest.
Around the same time, Chinese multinational conglomerate Sinochem was reportedly considering partnering with Russian interests in a possible bid for Potash Corp., the world's largest fertilizer producer.
This month, North Atlantic Potash Inc., the Canadian subsidiary of Russian fertilizer company JSC Acron, sold eight of its potash exploration areas in Saskatchewan to Yancoal Canada Resources Co. Ltd. of fertilizer-hungry China for $110-million.
Days earlier, Potash global mining giant Rio Tinto PLC entered a partnership to explore and develop potash mines in Saskatchewan.
Many experts believe any bid for a Canadian crown jewel like Potash Corp., Suncor Energy Inc., Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. or Cenovus Energy Inc. would severely test the friendly business ties between the Canada and China.

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