State-backed hackers from North Korea and Russia have been targeting organisations working on a coronavirus vaccine, Microsoft has said.<\/p>\n
It said a Russian group nicknamed “Fancy Bear” and North Korean groups dubbed “Zinc” and “Cerium” were implicated in recent cyber-attacks.<\/p>\n
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has previously said Russian hackers were targeting vaccine research.<\/p>\n
But Russia denied it was responsible.<\/p>\n
Microsoft, which develops cyber-security software, said it had detected attempts to break into the computer systems of seven pharmaceutical companies.<\/p>\n
Vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Korea, and the United States were also targeted.<\/p>\n
Microsoft said the Russian group had used “brute force” tactics, trying to log in to accounts using millions of different passwords.<\/p>\n
One of the North Korean groups sent emails posing as World Health Organization officials and tried to trick people into handing over their login credentials.<\/p>\n
Some of the break-in attempts failed, but Microsoft warned that some of them had been successful.<\/p>\n
Russia has previously denied targeting vaccine research. The Russian embassy in Washington, USA told news agency Reuters it had nothing further to add.<\/p>\n
North Korea’s representative to the United Nations has not yet responded to messages seeking comment.<\/p>\n
Source: BBC News<\/p>\n
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