Canadas CSE Releases Annual Report Marking 80th Anniversary With 3976 SIGINT Reports and 3216 Cyber Incidents

CSE, marking 80 years of service in 2026, released its Annual Report 2025-2026 covering April 1, 2025 through March 31, 2026 12. The agency produced 3,976 foreign signals intelligence reports for 30 client departments and 3,332 individual clients 2, while its Canadian Centre for Cyber Security responded to 3,216 cyber security incidents, split roughly evenly between Government of Canada systems (1,528) and Canadian entities (1,688) 12. The Cyber Centre also issued 25 alerts, 995 advisories, and more than 97,000 National Cyber Threat Notification System alerts to 1,363 subscribed organizations, and conducted 1,772 supply-chain risk assessments 123. CSE reported a workforce of 4,178 employees, an 8.1 percent increase over the prior year, and disclosed receiving 13 Ministerial Authorizations, including four for foreign cyber operations, while describing two active cyber operations that disrupted and diminished a fentanyl-precursor brokering network's ability to operate and undermined a violent extremist group's credibility and recruitment capacity 124.