Chinese trying to hack vaccine research from US

[Black Orchid]

US officials are reportedly planning to issue a warning that hackers in China are preparing to steal vaccine and treatment research from America.

According to The New York Times, hackers are seeking an advantage in the pandemic, which includes 'valuable intellectual property and public health data through illicit means related to vaccines, treatments and testing'.

A draft of the warning, which is expected to be released in the coming days, focuses on cybertheft and action by 'nontraditional actors'.

The Times reports that these 'nontraditional actors' are researchers and students who the Trump administration says are being activated to steal data from inside academic and private laboratories.

The Trump administration's decision to issue the accusation is part of a broader deterrent strategy that also involves United States Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, officials told the Times.

News of the accusation against China comes just days after it was revealed that hackers linked to Iran targeted staff at US drugmaker Gilead Sciences in recent weeks, as the company races to deploy a treatment for the COVID-19 virus.

In one case, a fake email login page designed to steal passwords was sent in April to a top Gilead executive involved in legal and corporate affairs, according to an archived version on a website used to scan for malicious web addresses. It's unclear if the attack was successful.

Ohad Zaidenberg, lead intelligence researcher at Israeli cybersecurity firm ClearSky, who closely tracks Iranian hacking activity and has investigated the attacks, said the attempt was part of an effort by an Iranian group to compromise email accounts of staff at the company using messages that impersonated journalists.

Two other cybersecurity researchers, who were not authorized to speak publicly about their analysis, confirmed that the web domains and hosting servers used in the hacking attempts were linked to Iran.

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The hacking attempts show how cyber spies around the world are focusing their intelligence-gathering efforts on information about COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.

In recent weeks, Reuters has reported that hackers with links to Iran and other groups have also attempted to break into the World Health Organization, and that attackers linked to Vietnam targeted the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.

Britain and the US warned last week that state-backed hackers are attacking pharmaceutical companies and research institutions working on treatments for the new disease.

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Who didn't expect this?

[brian ross]

How about we talk about American theft of nuclear secrets from Iran? How about American theft of intellectual secrets from Australia? How about American theft from the UK? Everybody does it so instead of zeroing in on China, perhaps the West needs to clean it's act up first? Spying is as natural as rice it seems. Only the Chinese of course do such things. Yeah, sure.

[DreamRyder]

How about we talk about American theft of nuclear secrets from Iran? How about American theft of intellectual secrets from Australia? How about American theft from the UK? Everybody does it so instead of zeroing in on China, perhaps the West needs to clean it's act up first? Spying is as natural as rice it seems. Only the Chinese of course do such things. Yeah, sure.

Bwian is once again making accusations, pulling them out of his proverbial ass, without any references to support his "theoretical" arguments. If he doesn't provide valid references from bona fide sources, I would submit they don't exist, & Bwian is just once again blowing smoke out of his bovine ass......in a vain attempt to divert attention away from the true culprits, accurately depicted in the OP...........


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[brian ross]

Err, I don't own a donkey. Perhaps you need to learn to spell like an Australian? Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Tsk, tsk.

[DreamRyder]

Err, I don't own a donkey. Perhaps you need to learn to spell like an Australian? Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Tsk, tsk.

Why? I sure as hell ain't no Fv€kin' leftist democ-rat.........

I'm not an Australian.......I may live here in Australia.....I've lived here for the better part of 30 years.......but I only live here.....I'm a Natural Born American Citizen, & damn proud of it!

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Australia is a beautiful Country, & I like quite a few, if not most of the Australians I've come to know.............but there will always be one thing so, so very true......

My heart beats true for the Red, White, & Blue!


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