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Russia and China after our vaccine: Dominic Raab issues warning about 'hostile state' hacking attacks on scientific and medical targets
Last month the NCSC launched its Suspicious Email Reporting Service (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab highlighted a surge in cyber attacks on the UK and US saying criminals and 'hostile states' were trying to take advantage of the crisis for their own 'malicious ends'.
Dominic Raab issued a thinly-veiled warning to Russia and China tonight as he lashed out at 'predatory' hackers targeting organisations involved in the fight against coronavirus.
The Foreign Secretary highlighted a surge in cyber attacks on the UK and US saying criminals and 'hostile states' were trying to take advantage of the crisis for their own 'malicious ends'.
Taking the daily briefing in Downing Street, Mr Raab said the government was issuing urgent advice to help companies and bodies protect themselves.
The warning came as cybersecurity agencies on both sides of the Atlantic issued a joint alert to healthcare and medical research staff, urging them to improve their password security.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) say the criminals have been discovered targeting healthcare bodies, particularly those involved in coronavirus response.
The news comes as countries worldwide remain engaged in a tense race to develop a vaccine. The first country to do so will undoubtedly achieve huge diplomatic and geo-political influence.
One team at Oxford University has teamed up with a bio-pharmaceutical company and started trials in a bid to unlock the crisis.
The joint advisory did not name specific countries involved in the hackings but Sky News said the culprits are understood to include China, Russia and Iran.
It marks a new front in the UK's increasingly tense stand-off with Beijing over coronavirus.
Although collaborating over a vaccine, the two countries are at odds over whether China was slow to reveal how serious the pandemic was, affecting other countries' actions later on.
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