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Open this photo in gallery:Deputy Minister Rob Stewart says criminals are consolidating their cash, converting it to cryptocurrency, moving it to another jurisdiction and washing it back into the system. Justin Tang/The Canadian PressFollowing digital-money trails will be a priority for Canada’s new Financial Crimes Agency in the war against illicit finance, says Rob Stewart, deputy minister of the proposed law enforcement agency. Mr. Stewart, who has the task of getting the long-promised initiative off the ground, has spent months speaking to stakeholders ranging from policing agencies to private-sector experts to international partners. The Financial Crimes Agency (FCA) could launch as early as next year, depending on when Bill C-29, the legislation to establish it, passes, Mr. Stewart said. The bill, which was introduced in the spring and is currently being studied by MPs in a parliamentary committee, aims to more effectively target financial crimes.

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A supply-chain attack involving ConnectWise’s cloud services has exposed Microsoft 365 customers to unauthorized application access, with researchers reporting successful sign-ins across 173 partner and customer tenants. The incident centres on credentials associated with ConnectWise Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, and raises concerns about attackers exploiting permissions already entrusted to business software. ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorized access to application identities within its Cloud Backup environment. In an October 17 update on its service-status page, the company said it was shutting off application access, interrupting customer backups while investigation and remediation continued.