According to Microsoft, κυβερνοεπιθέσεις που προέρχεται από τη Βόρεια Κορέα και η Ρωσία έχουν στόχο τις εταιρείες που διεξάγουν έρευνα και ψάχνουν vaccine for Covid-19.
Microsoft said in a new blog post of that the attacks target seven leading pharmaceutical companies and researchers in the US, Canada, France, the India και τη Νότια Κορέα. Το post υπογράφεται από τον αντιπρόεδρο της Microsoft, κο Tom Burt, και αναφέρει ότι οι εταιρείες στόχοι είναι στην πλειονότητα, κατασκευαστές εμβολίων για τον COVID-19 και έχουν φτάσει την έρευνά τους σε διάφορα στάδια κλινικών δοκιμών.
Microsoft did not name the companies or provide details about the information that may have been stolen or tampered with, but said it had alerted the organizations and offered assistance where the attacks were successful.
According to Microsoft, the majority of attacks were blocked by protections security of. The hackerThey used various methods to carry out the attacks, including brute force attempts, phishing, etc., where they tried to convince victims that they were WHO recruiters looking for job candidates.
With the coronavirus growing globally in a second wave, pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their vaccine in clinical trials was 90% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. These preliminaries data have yet to be examined by independent researchers, but experts called the news "extremely encouraging". And of course such research is worth a fortune.