Organizations that use machine-learning algorithms to help with decisions need to be on guard against hackers who are able to spoof them with bad data, the Communications Security Establishment warned in a new report. Digital currencies with poor security and misleading deepfakes polluting public discourse are other new threats, and quantum computing that can smash traditional cryptography methods is a worry on the horizon, according to the national cybersecurity agency. (The Logic)

Talking point: The biggest threats from private and state-affiliated hackers outlined in the report—ransom attacks on corporate data and identity theft—aren’t new but the pandemic-driven shift to e-commerce and to cloud services for remote work has expanded the “threat surface,” the CSE said. Following good security practices and being alert to social-engineering tactics remains the best defence for organizations.