FBI and DHS Warn that Chinese Hackers Are Targeting US COVID Research
05/13/2020
Cyber actors and “non-traditional collectors” linked to the Chinese government are targeting and possibly seeking to compromise U.S. organizations conducting COVID-19 research, two U.S. security agencies warned, according to a CBS report.
A public service announcement from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, said the hackers have been “attempting to identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property (IP) and public health data related to vaccines, treatments, and testing from networks and personnel affiliated with COVID-19-related research.”