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Information on the vaccine has been stolen! In addition to fighting a COVID-19 pandemic, the world has to “fight” against hackers for whom anything goes.
Recently, the European Medicines Agency, the regulatory body of the European Union (EU), reported that documents about the new coronavirus vaccine stolen and put on the Internet by ‘hackers’ were also “manipulated”.
Documentation manipulated to undermine confidence in the vaccine
It was in November that the hackers gained access to documents and emails related to the evaluation of experimental vaccines. All documentation contained confidential information about the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the European Medicines Agency ...
Some of the correspondence was manipulated by the perpetrators [do roubo] in a way that could undermine confidence in vaccines. We saw that part of the correspondence was not published in its entirety and in its original form or with comments and additions from the perpetrators
According to Lusa, the Italian cybersecurity company Yarix revealed that it had found 33 MB of information accessed by hackers in a clandestine forum, with a title criticizing the effect of vaccines and one of their manufacturers, Pfizer, before continuing. . spread to other pages on the Internet, namely the 'dark web'.
For Yarix, the intention behind the leak is "to cause significant damage to the reputation and credibility of the European drug regulator and Pfizer."
The European Medicines Agency did not reveal the information that was changed, but cybersecurity authorities believe that the actions taken by hackers are part of disinformation campaigns launched by governments.
Cybersecurity consultant Lukasz Olejnik said that "while it is not clear who may be behind the operation, it is clear that resources have been allocated," he said.
The organization also said that police are already taking "necessary steps" to respond to the leak and that a criminal investigation is underway.
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