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Two British teams in an advanced stage of trialing Covid-19 vaccines, at Oxford University and Imperial College London, have been targeted by hackers. The National Cyber Security Center (part of GCHQ) said it had the “highest level of confidence” that the Kremlin was behind the hacking, which was confirmed by America’s National Security Agency and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment.
The hackers were identified as a group called APT-29, aka “Cozy Bear”, which has previously been behind cyber attacks on the Pentagon and the DNC. For the first time the group has been named as part of Russian intelligence.
On Wednesday researchers at Oxford said they had made a breakthrough in developing a vaccine, which they suggested could be in production as early as October. Then on Thursday the Russians announced that their vaccine would be approved in August, making it “possibly the first vaccine to be approved in the world”.
A Kremlin spokesman said: “We have no information on who could have hacked research centers in Britain.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...pted-steal-covid-19-vaccine-research-downing/
Two British teams in an advanced stage of trialing Covid-19 vaccines, at Oxford University and Imperial College London, have been targeted by hackers. The National Cyber Security Center (part of GCHQ) said it had the “highest level of confidence” that the Kremlin was behind the hacking, which was confirmed by America’s National Security Agency and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment.
The hackers were identified as a group called APT-29, aka “Cozy Bear”, which has previously been behind cyber attacks on the Pentagon and the DNC. For the first time the group has been named as part of Russian intelligence.
On Wednesday researchers at Oxford said they had made a breakthrough in developing a vaccine, which they suggested could be in production as early as October. Then on Thursday the Russians announced that their vaccine would be approved in August, making it “possibly the first vaccine to be approved in the world”.
A Kremlin spokesman said: “We have no information on who could have hacked research centers in Britain.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politic...pted-steal-covid-19-vaccine-research-downing/