Russia Is Trying to Hack COVID-19 Vaccine Development

[Galraedia]

Source: Vice

Russian state-based hackers have targeted Western COVID-19 vaccine development, the cybersecurity agencies of the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada say.

APT29, a hacker group that has been linked to the Kremlin and Russian-sanctioned hacking campaigns, undertook a campaign to steal information and intellectual property around the development and testing of vaccines for the novel coronavirus.

The campaign sought to “hinder response efforts at a time when healthcare experts and medical researchers need every available resource to help fight the pandemic” reads a joint statement from the three countries.

The hackers used malware known as “WellMess” and “WellMail” in order to gain access to researchers’ computers. Japan’s cyber security agency issued an alert in 2018, warning that WellMess was targeting Windows and Linux machines, after the malware was found on Japanese systems.

Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxqzmy/russia-is-trying-to-hack-covid-19-vaccine-development?

[gab13by13]

1. Fake news,

Putin said he didn't do it. I don't see any reason why he would.

[lapfog_1]

3. add a sarcasm smilie

otherwise this will be on constant alert

[oasis]

4. I get it, but not everyone here does.

Just sayin'

[Scarsdale]

2. Why go to all that trouble?

All Vlad has to do is tell tRump he wants samples, and he would get them.

[mitch96]

5. I think we should just keep feeding APT29 false info.. I mean LOTS.. keep'em guessing....nt

[BadgerKid]

6. Seems like a lot of trouble for a hoax.

Do I need

[wryter2000]

7. Um, maybe I'm way off base

But shouldn't we share any information we have so every can work on the problem? Seems to me what we're doing here is trying to protect the profits from making progress when we should be concentrating on finding a solution.

[HotTeaBag]

8. I agree.

Folks refer to it as a global pandemic for a reason.