'Another attack without evidence’: MEA on Canada's Justin Trudeau govt labelling India a 'cyber security adversary'

During a press conference, the Ministry of External Affairs slammed Canada’s cyber security report, asserting that its accusations against India are baseless and lack credible evidence, much like previous allegations.

India has been added to Canada’s list of nations viewed as cyber threats, officially labelling New Delhi as a "cyber adversary."

In response, India’s Ministry of External Affairs called this move another Canadian tactic to malign India on the global stage.

"We see this as another Canadian strategy to attack and malign India. Their senior officials have openly confessed that Canada is seeking to manipulate global opinions against India. As on other occasions, allegations are made repeatedly without a shred of evidence," Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs said at a press conference in New Delhi today, reported NDTV.

In its most recent report about cyber security, titled 'National Cyber Threat Assessment 2025-2026', the Government of Canada has called India a "cyber adversary".

In the report, it claimed that "India's leadership almost certainly aspires to build a modernized cyber program with domestic cyber capabilities. India very likely uses its cyber program to advance its national security imperatives, including espionage, counter-terrorism, and the country's efforts to promote its global status and counter narratives against India and the Indian government. We assess that India's cyber program likely leverages commercial cyber vendors to enhance its operations."

It further claimed "We assess that Indian state-sponsored cyber threat actors likely conduct cyber threat activity against Government of Canada networks for the purpose of espionage. We judge that official bilateral relations between Canada and India will very likely drive Indian state-sponsored cyber threat activity against Canada."

The report also claimed that "countries that aspire to become new centres of power within the global system, such as India, are building cyber programs that present varying levels of threat to Canada."

Canada made these claims under "Section 1" of its cyber security report titled ‘Cyber Threat from State Adversaries’, which it says “introduces the state cyber threat ecosystem and discusses the cyber threats to Canada.”

India has been added to a list of adversarial nations that includes China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.