Welcome to SOCRadar’s Canada Threat Landscape Report 2026!

Explore the evolving cyber threats targeting Canada with SOCRadar’s Canada Threat Landscape Report 2026. This report highlights how threat actors focus on Canadian public administration, finance, transportation, education, retail, utilities, and consumer-facing services through Dark Web data sales, credential abuse, ransomware activity, phishing campaigns, and espionage-linked operations. With data breach and compromise dominating underground activity, Canada’s threat landscape shows a strong focus on stealing, selling, and exploiting sensitive information.

Download the full report today to gain strategic visibility into cyber risks affecting Canada and strengthen your organization’s defenses.

Key Insights from Canada’s Cyber Threat Landscape

• Data Breach and Compromise Dominates Dark Web Activity: Data breach and compromise accounts for 53.64% of Dark Web threat categories and 37.00% of threat types, making data theft Canada’s primary cyber risk.
• Public Administration Faces the Highest Exposure: Public Administration leads Dark Web targeting at 21.20%, reflecting the value of citizen records, identity data, and institutional information.
• Finance and Insurance Remains a Major Target: Finance and Insurance ranks second at 13.47%, showing continued demand for financial data on Dark Web marketplaces.
• Critical Infrastructure Sectors Show Elevated Exposure: Transportation and Warehousing accounts for 9.89%, while Utilities accounts for 8.74%, signaling risk across services with direct public impact.
• Credential Abuse Enables Larger Attacks: Unauthorized Access and Credentials accounts for 21.41% of threat types, showing how stolen credentials, session tokens, and access listings support broader compromise.
• Espionage Is Hidden Inside Other Threat Types: Espionage and state-sponsored activity represents 9.48% of threat categories but only 2.48% by threat type, suggesting many operations appear as credential theft or data compromise.
• Ransomware Activity Is Highly Fragmented: Qilin leads at 14.5%, followed by INC Ransom at 9.5% and Akira at 8.8%, while 67.3% of activity comes from smaller or emerging operators.
• E-Commerce Leads Phishing Targeting: E-Commerce accounts for 23.12% of phishing activity, showing that attackers heavily target consumer trust, payment data, and online retail credentials.
• AT&T Is the Top Phishing Lure: AT&T accounts for 20.74% of phishing page titles, nearly four times the second-ranked brand.
• HTTPS Is No Longer a Reliable Trust Signal: 63.4% of phishing sites use HTTPS, making the browser padlock unreliable as a safety indicator.

Why This Report Matters

Canada’s threat landscape shows a clear divide between Dark Web and phishing activity. Dark Web threats focus heavily on public-sector and financial data, while phishing campaigns prioritize consumer-facing services, telecommunications, e-commerce, and enterprise identity platforms. This means organizations must avoid one-size-fits-all defenses and align controls with the specific threat types they face.

For government, finance, transportation, utilities, and education organizations, early visibility into leaked databases, access listings, and credential exposure is critical. For consumer-facing brands and digital service providers, phishing detection, brand abuse monitoring, and identity protection remain essential to reducing fraud and account compromise.

Take Action Now

• Dark Web Monitoring: Detect leaked databases, exposed credentials, and unauthorized access listings tied to Canadian organizations.
• Ransomware Intelligence: Track Qilin, INC Ransom, Akira, and smaller ransomware groups targeting Canadian entities.
• Phishing Detection & Response: Identify e-commerce, telecommunications, HTTPS-enabled, and brand impersonation phishing campaigns.
• Access Security: Strengthen MFA, monitor privileged accounts, rotate exposed credentials, and reduce credential-based attack paths.