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Welcome to SOCRadar’s Canada Threat Landscape Report’s CISO Brief!

Canada’s security leaders face a data-driven threat landscape where public administration, finance, critical infrastructure, and consumer-facing services are targeted through data theft, credential abuse, ransomware, phishing, and espionage-linked activity. SOCRadar’s Canada Threat Landscape Report’s CISO Brief provides security leaders with actionable intelligence to improve threat visibility, strengthen identity controls, and reduce organizational exposure across Dark Web, ransomware, and phishing risks.

Download the full report today to gain a comprehensive understanding of the cyber threats impacting Canada and enhance your security strategy.

Key Cybersecurity Insights for Security Leaders

  • Data Breach and Compromise Is the Primary Risk: Data breach and compromise represents 53.64% of Dark Web threat categories, showing that attackers primarily focus on stealing and trading data.
  • Credential Threats Are Widespread: Unauthorized Access and Credentials rises to 21.41% by threat type, indicating that stolen credentials, session tokens, and access listings are major enablers of compromise.
  • Public Administration and Finance Hold the Highest-Value Data: Public Administration leads Dark Web targeting at 21.20%, followed by Finance and Insurance at 13.47%.
  • Espionage Often Appears as Data Theft: Espionage and state-sponsored activity ranks second by category at 9.48% but drops to 2.48% by threat type, suggesting many campaigns rely on credential theft and data compromise.
  • Technical Exploitation Remains Active: Exploitation and Vulnerabilities accounts for 6.81% of threat types, while Malware and Ransomware accounts for 6.31%.
  • Ransomware Defense Cannot Focus on One Actor: Qilin, INC Ransom, and Akira account for only 32.8% of ransomware activity, while 67.3% is spread across smaller or emerging operators.
  • Phishing Targets Identity and Consumer Trust: AT&T leads phishing page impersonation at 20.74%, while Google and Microsoft-related lures show continued targeting of enterprise identity.
  • HTTPS-Based Phishing Requires Updated Detection Logic: Nearly two-thirds of phishing pages use HTTPS, making URL reputation, content analysis, and domain monitoring more reliable than protocol checks alone.

Why This Report Matters for CISOs

CISOs in Canada must prepare for a threat landscape where sensitive data, credentials, and access are the main targets. Public-sector and financial organizations face high Dark Web exposure, while phishing campaigns target consumers, employees, and enterprise identity systems through familiar brands and security-themed lures.

Security teams should prioritize Dark Web monitoring, credential exposure detection, phishing defense, ransomware preparedness, and intelligence-led vulnerability management. Stronger identity controls, MFA enforcement, privileged access monitoring, backup resilience, and improved detection for HTTPS-enabled phishing can help reduce the risk of larger compromise.