Canada’s Spy Agency Used First-of-Its-Kind Warrant to Clean Botnet-Infected Devices

Canada’s spy service got a judge’s permission to reach into infected servers, home routers, and IoT gear sitting on Canadian soil and neutralize two foreign-run botnets.

The Federal Court released a public version of the ruling on June 15. It is the first time the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has used its threat reduction warrant powers this way.

The warrant let CSIS alter,