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Update (July 21): Today, the US Justice Department issued an indictment against two Chinese hackers linked to the country's intelligence services for attempting to steal proprietary COVID-19 vaccine information, The New York Times reports.
A hacking group affiliated with the Russian government is targeting academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies worldwide to glean information on COVID-19 vaccine research, according to Western powers. Intelligence officials from Britain, the United States, and Canada released a joint report this week condemning Cozy Bear—the same group responsible for email hacking during the 2016 US presidential election—for its use of malware to gain access to secure computers.
“We condemn these despicable attacks against those doing vital work to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” Paul Chichester, the director of operations for Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), says in a statement released alongside the report. The document goes on to state that Cozy Bear ...
