Britain on Thursday risked worsening fraught diplomatic ties with Russia by accusing Moscow-linked hackers of targeting labs conducting coronavirus vaccine research.
Both accusations came even before the publication in the coming days of a long-awaited parliamentary report into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit vote.The two countries have been at loggerheads since Moscow was accused of trying to kill double agent Sergei Skripal with a powerful military-grade nerve agent in 2018.
NCSC director of operations Paul Chichester said known targets included UK, US and Canadian vaccine research and development organisations using techniques including malware. Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that targeting those working to find a vaccine was “completely unacceptable”. The party used them in its campaign for the December 12 election, claiming they proved Prime Minister Boris Johnson would “sell-out” the state-run health sector to US President Donald Trump.File: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on June 24, 2020, to attend Prime Minister’s Questions a at the House of Commons – Labour’s then leader Jeremy Corbyn dismissed claims the leak was put online by Russia as a “conspiracy theory”.
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