Microsoft warns Russian, North Korean hackers targeting groups researching COVID-19 vaccines
Microsoft warned Friday that the company witnessed efforts by Russian and North Korean hacking groups to target pharmaceutical companies and coronavirus vaccine researchers.
The announcement is part of a wider effort by the company to take action against these attacks.
“In recent months, we’ve detected cyberattacks from three nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for Covid-19,” Tom Burt, the corporate vice president of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.
“The targets include leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Korea and the United States.”
Burt wrote that the three advanced persistent threat groups involved were a Russian group known as “Strontium” and two North Korean groups known as “Zinc” and “Cerium.”
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