Chinese hackers goal Indian vaccine makers Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech: Report

Image Source : PTI Chinese hackers goal Indian vaccine makers Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech: Report
Chinese and Russian-linked hacking campaigns in latest weeks focused Indian vaccine makers Serum Institute of India (SII) and Bharat Biotech, cyber intelligence and menace discovery platform Cyfirma stated on Monday. Both SII and Bharat Biotech are concerned in producing Covid-19 vaccine.

Moreover, Cyfirma added that hacking campaigns believed to be originating from North Korean focused yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali group.

The Singapore/Japan-based Cyfirma, backed by Goldman Sachs and Z3 Partners with massive operations in Bangaluru not too long ago launched a report titled “Threat Landscape for Pharmaceutical Companies”.

They uncovered cyber assault campaigns originating from Russia, China, North Korea, and the Middle East concentrating on 12 nations together with India to steal Covid vaccine analysis information, affected person information, scientific trials information, provide chain and vaccine manufacturing data.

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The goal corporations are the highest pharma corporations in India, the US, the UK, Japan, Australia, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Taiwan and Mexico.

As per the report, presently, there are 15 lively hacking campaigns underway.

“The Covid-19 pandemic is also known as the big reset where the way we work, play and live have seen a massive paradigm shift,” stated within the report.

“The healthcare industry, and particularly, pharmaceutical companies, has been thrust directly under global spotlight. While the world stumbles in its search for recovery, cybercriminals lurking in the dark web have seized the global event to profit from the climate of fear and uncertainty,” it added.

Among the motives behind the campaigns are exfiltration of delicate private, scientific trial data, well being care report, buyer data, medical product data for geopolitical and monetary acquire, stated the report.

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