Hackers from Russia, China and Iran behind cyber attacks on research universities who conducted research to create vaccines against coronavirus. To such conclusion experts of the National centre of cyber security in the UK.
the Attackers are trying to hack into the websites of British universities and research institutions, to steal the research related to the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, reported the Guardian, citing experts of the National cybersecurity center (NCSC).
Now dozens of universities and institutions conducting research related to COVID-19 — starting from tests for antibodies to development of drugs for experimental treatment. Still no attack was successful.
“Any attack that is directed at efforts to combat the coronavirus, reprehensible. We are seeing an increased share of cyber attacks related coronavirus, and our experts work around the clock to help organizations targeted by these actions,” said The Guardian a representative of the National cybersecurity center. He added that the overall level of cyber attacks against the UK by criminals and States during the pandemic remains stable.
the NCSC is collaborating With the University of Oxford who works on a vaccine against coronavirus and already started testing it on people. If the vaccine shows its effectiveness, its production and distribution will deal with the pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca.
Cooperation with NCSC necessary to protect research related COVID-19, said the representative of the University of Oxford.
Former cyberanalytic the National Agency for the fight against crime in the UK, James Sullivan is not surprised that the target of hostile States became the study of the novel coronavirus. “The pandemic will lead to an increase in such cyber attacks,” he said. “We’ve seen this in the campaigns of cyber espionage and disinformation. There is a risk that this will exacerbate political tensions. No wonder all this is happening in the region related to the development of a vaccine, as it is very competitive,” — said the expert.
Irina Uzbekova
