In this blog series, our Executive Director Ben Taylor highlights a selection of cybersecurity, physical security, health or natural threat related stories relevant to the cannabis industry. Cybersecurity Cyberattack Leaves Ontario Cannabis Store Unable to Fill Orders The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), the monopoly wholesaler of adult-use marijuana in Canada’s most valuable market, suspended deliveries to stores after a cyberattack on the parent company of contractor Domain Logistics, which operates the OCS distribution center. The attack occurred “late on Friday August 5,” according to an ema ..read more

In this blog series, our Executive Director Ben Taylor highlights a selection of cybersecurity, physical security, health or natural threat related stories relevant to the cannabis industry. Physical Security Terrorgram Publishes ‘The Hard Reset’- To Inspire Future Hostile Attacks Yesterday, anti-government and White, Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (WRMVEs) Terrorgram published a 261 page propaganda document titled “The Hard Reset” which is filled with plenty of racist and antisemitic sentiments and discusses tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) and target selection ..read more

In this blog series, our Executive Director Ben Taylor highlights a selection of cybersecurity, physical security, health or natural threat related stories relevant to the cannabis industry. Cybersecurity Cannabis MSO Shares Cyber Threat Report A Cannabis ISAO partner organization has recently shared a report in our Slack workspace that outlines the activity of a threat actor they have coined as “GanjaMask”. That report was further elaborated on by an independent cybersecurity research professional. The full report is labeled as TLP:AMBER and as such can not be publicly shared, but if you wou ..read more

In this blog series, our Executive Director Ben Taylor highlights a selection of cybersecurity, physical security, health or natural threat related stories relevant to the cannabis industry. Cybersecurity ‘Shields Up’: the New Normal in Cyberspace Jen Easterly, Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Chris Inglis, the National Cyber Director wrote this op-ed discussing the “Shields Up” initiative and addressing the question “When will we be able to put our shields down?” The first point the Directors brought up was the continued need for government and the pri ..read more