According to Microsoft, cyber-attacks from North Korea and Russia target companies that are investigating and searching vaccine for COVID-19.
Microsoft said in a new blog post that the attacks target seven top pharmaceutical companies and researchers in the US, Canada, France, India and South Korea. The post, signed by Microsoft Vice President Tom Burt, states that the majority of the target companies are manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines and have reached the research stage at various stages of clinical trials.
Microsoft did not name the companies or provide details about them information that may have been stolen or hacked, but said it had alerted agencies and offered assistance where attacks were successful.
According to Microsoft, the majority of attacks αποκλείστηκε από τις προστασίες security her. The hackers used various methods to carry out the attacks, including brute force attempts, phishing, etc., where they tried to convince the 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 the BionTech announced that their vaccine in clinical trials was 90% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19. This preliminary data has yet to be examined by independent researchers, but experts called the news "extremely encouraging". And of course such research is worth a fortune.