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Covid-19 roundup: Rus­sia hack­ers tar­get US, UK vac­cine and drug re­searchers; Fau­ci fires back at White House cam­paign to un­der­mine him

Rus­sia has tried to steal Covid-19 vac­cine and ther­a­peu­tics re­search from phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal and aca­d­e­m­ic in­sti­tu­tions in the US, UK and Cana­da, Britain’s Na­tion­al Cy­ber Se­cu­ri­ty Cen­tre said Thurs­day.

The NC­SC said that hack­ing at­tempts came from a group known as APT129, al­so known as “Cozy Bear,” that “al­most cer­tain­ly op­er­ate as part of Russ­ian in­tel­li­gence ser­vices.” The Cana­di­an Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Se­cu­ri­ty Es­tab­lish­ment, US De­part­ment for Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, the Cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty In­fra­struc­ture Se­cu­ri­ty Agency, and the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Agency shared the as­sess­ment, the NC­SC said.

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