Canadian Foreign Interference (General)

[The Bread Guy]

This could fit in a number of threads, but picked this one since more than one country (IRN's int, MEX cartels) sounds involved.

Justice Department Disrupts Iranian Cyber Enabled Psychological Operations

Today, the Justice Department announced the seizure of four domains as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt hacking and transnational repression schemes conducted by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). The affidavit supporting the seizure warrant can be found

www.justice.gov

DOJ Seizes Iranian Intelligence Websites Behind $250,000 Beheading Bounty on Canadian Politician — Cartel Directed to Kill Her at Ottawa Home

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security used a Mexican drug cartel as a threat against a Canadian politician. The Justice Department just shut the network down.

www.thebureau.news

Iran’s Kill Network Ran Through Toronto: Affidavit Reveals Canadian Web Infrastructure, Hong Kong Crypto Links, and Terror Financing Behind Cartel Plot Targeting Ottawa Politician

OTTAWA/WASHINGTON — Before the United States government seized four websites operated by Iran’s intelligence ministry and dismantled a network that had directed the Jalisco New Generation Cartel to behead a former Ontario politician at her Ottawa home, two of those sites were registered through...

www.thebureau.news

Affidavit from DOJ info-machine attached.

Some backstory:

Iran-linked hackers offer $250K bounty on ex-politician | The Jerusalem Post

Ghamari’s family fled to Canada when she was only a year old in 1986, after an assassination attempt on her father.

www.jpost.com

Iran-linked hackers offer $250,000 bounty to kill activists | The Jerusalem Post

Experts previously told Iran International that CJNG was among the many Iran-linked groups spreading insecurity across Latin America.

www.jpost.com

Edited to add archived links to The Bureau stories here & here, a response from the IRN hacker guys, and a quote that might bite the RCMP's Commish in the butt (yellow highlight mine) :

Iran-linked Handala hacker group responds with defiance after US seizure of websites | The National

Justice Department accused group of 'psychological operations and transnational repression'

www.thenationalnews.com

EXCLUSIVE: RCMP commissioner says no current criminal link between transnational repression in Canada and the Indian government

RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme says based on the information before him, there are no longer clandestine activities or transnational repression taking place in Canada that is linked to the government of India.

www.ctvnews.ca