--- title: Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers,... description: Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) disclosed three foreign active cyber operations in its 2025-2026 annual report. The agency hacked fentanyl... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/canadian-spy-agency-says-it-hacked-drug-traffickers-extremists-and-a-ransomware-gang-last-year-vjtxxgqav twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year | daily.dev og:description: Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) disclosed three foreign active cyber operations in its 2025-2026 annual report. The agency hacked fentanyl... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/canadian-spy-agency-says-it-hacked-drug-traffickers-extremists-and-a-ransomware-gang-last-year-vjtxxgqav og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VJtxxgQAv.png og:image:alt: Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) disclosed three foreign active cyber operations in its 2025-2026 annual report. The agency hacked fentanyl chemical brokers to disrupt their supply chain, undermined an overseas extremist group's recruitment capabilities, and rendered a ransomware-as-a-service gang's infrastructure inoperable while deleting data from its servers. CSE also conducted technical disruptions against 10 major ransomware gangs targeting Canada and defended against a phishing campaign aimed at federal government institutions. The disclosures are rare, as spy agencies seldom detail offensive cyber operations to protect their methods. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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