I suspect China attacked the network to obtain vaccine data for Covid-19

According to New York Times, a draft public alert issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Department of Homeland Security over the next few days, said China was seeking to appropriate “intellectual property and data.” valuable public health related to vaccines, treatments and tests by illegal means. “

The US alert focused on cyber attacks by “non-traditional factors.” This is how the Trump administration calls deployed researchers and students to steal data from private and specialized laboratories.

The decision to release specific allegations against Chinese hackers is part of a broader deterrent strategy with the involvement of the US Cyber ​​Command. USA And the National Security Agency.

Under the jurisdiction authorized by President Trump nearly two years ago, US agencies have the right to deeply intervene in Chinese networks, as well as other networks, to deal with cyber attacks.

The warning is the next move in the Trump administration’s efforts to hold China accountable for the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic.

United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently said there was “tremendous evidence” that the coronavirus that caused the pandemic strain Covid-19 originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak originated. 2019.

Pompeo warned in April that “the greatest threat to the United States was to ensure that there were sufficient resources to protect the United States from Chinese cyberattacks.”

According to a report by the global CTI organization of 1,400 cyber security professionals working with the US government. The US, China “may collect information about Covid-19 that it does not have, if it believes that someone is making a vaccine or could use a pandemic to steal any information.”

Some US federal officials. USA They also suspect that the possibility that China will attack the network to search for data on Covid-19 in the context of the world is competing to develop the Covid-19 vaccine as soon as possible.

“China has had a tradition of committing malicious acts in cyberspace, so it is not uncommon for them to follow key organizations involved in the United States’ Covid-19 pandemic response. “said Christopher Krebs, director of the United States Department of Network Security and Infrastructure Security.

Krebs said the Network and Infrastructure Security Authority “will dramatically protect the interests of the United States.”

Last week, the British National Center for Cyber ​​Security and the US Department of Network and Infrastructure Security. USA They issued a general warning that “health care agencies, pharmaceutical companies, research organizations, medical research, academia, and local governments” could become targets of cyber attacks involving Covid-19.

Experts have discovered ways to steal the passwords of hackers when they try to access accounts through passwords that are frequently used by healthcare agencies and medical research organizations.

Although the general warning does not specifically mention any country, some experts believe that Chinese hackers may be one of the objects of which the US USA

According to Justin Fier, an expert at cybersecurity firm Darktrace, hackers carried out a large-scale intelligence gathering to investigate drugs, orders for personal protective equipment, etc. in response to an epidemic to see which countries are progressing in the fight against the disease.

Thanh Dat

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