In a bid to be the first nation to
develop a coronavirus vaccine, the major powers are all standing one against
another. When the newsbroke that Russia might actually be the first one to come
up with a vaccine, other countries seemed to have become more cautious.
According to the reports, the
Intelligence agency of the United States United Kingdom and Canada accused
hackers of trying to steal valuable private information about a coronavirus
vaccine. But the highlight is that they believe those hackers are working for
the Russian intelligence.
The National Cyber Security Centre
of the UK is ‘almost certain’ that APT29, also going by the name 'The Dukes' or
'Cozy Bears' connected to Russian intelligence and are targeting valuable
findings on the coronavirus vaccine. Though Russia has denied any such connection.
"We do not have information
about who may have hacked into pharmaceutical companies and research centres in
Great Britain. We can say one thing - Russia has nothing at all to do with
these attempts," said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Putin,
according to the Tass news agency.
The intelligence reports from the
US, the UK and Canada also suggest that these are the same group of hackers
that interfered with the election procedure four years ago in Trump’s favor. It
is not clear if any valuable information has been stolen but British Foreign
Secretary Dominic Raab said"It is completely unacceptable that the Russian
Intelligence Services are targeting those working to combat the coronavirus
pandemic."
The UK’s NCSC, The US’s Department for Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber-security Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Canada’s Canadian Communication Security Establishment (CSE have all gathered similar reports regarding the hacking.
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