Exclusive: China-backed hackers 'targeted COVID-19 vaccine firm Moderna'

FILE PHOTO: A sign marks the headquarters of Moderna Therapeutics, which is developing a vaccine against the coronavirus disease , in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File PhotoLast week, the U.S. Justice Department made public an indictment of two Chinese nationals accused of spying on the United States, including three unnamed U.S.-based targets involved in medical research to fight the novel coronavirus.

Reconnaissance activities can include a range of actions, including probing public websites for vulnerabilities to scouting out important accounts after entering a network, cybersecurity experts say. Moderna’s vaccine candidate is one of the earliest and biggest bets by the Trump administration to fight the pandemic.

Prosecutors said Li and Dong acted as contractors for China’s Ministry of State Security, a state intelligence agency. Messages left with several accounts registered under Li’s digital alias, oro0lxy, were not returned. Contact details for Dong were not available. FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a"Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken April 10, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

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Why do we keep rewarding bad behavior? Oh yeah Corp. greed.

As we know china covid19 research more advance than US, why china need to hack moderna?

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In 2011 he tried to warn us while Obama and Biden were selling us out.

Why anything link to Chinese governemnt? do you have any evidence to support this news

JJansaSDS US government is one big liar!

Evidence, if you have Seems all the world except India steal things from US

Sorry this is not believable.

US companies doesn't have much progress so no need to hack the data.

They just want to know how to get in on that pump and dump money Moderna executives have been getting

MAGA on lies & China Peril 👏

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Lol😂😂

Can we believe anything coming out of the Trump regime ?

Chinese are unabashed bad actors on every level. Glad the world is finally catching on.

Aren’t labs supposed to SHARE information so we can get a vaccine faster? Or are we some kind of hostages ?

Fake news

Evidence?

CyberSecurity EU_Commission

Unless the world joins together to dissect China and analyse province by province, their secret warfare tactics and pile ups will never be understood. There should be a consensus in the UN to remove the VETO power of China on world matters.

We should just declare war and get this over with. The depths of Chinese Communist depravity know no bounds.

Funny news, funny officials! It depends on the mouth! Where is their evidence? It's like saying 5g!

I Am Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

No Chinese hacker would dare to make a move without explicit orders from China's hire ups. Since China's justice is ruled by Politics, go after China in a US Court. It is time to buy American & Western manufactured products.

China is a notorious pursuer of cyber-warfare and espionage.

Like everyday of the year the biased Reuters will peddle unsubstantiated 'allegations'/lies from anonymous 'US officials' as-is without any conditional, without investigation, without any fact-checking. Reuters is part of the US propaganda arm and a disgrace to journalism.

Groundless nonsense. Never had evidence. Pure stigmatizing from USA.

THIS is what CCP does, just like how they did Xinjiang and HK dirty. If they are stopped here and now, they will assert dominance over the free world soon.

Russia, China, Iran, Syria, N. Korea. The US picks up one of them each time they want an excuse. Never changed.

Ok China has technology to develop the virus but no technology to develp the vaccine...really?

Yes blame everything on China, Russia and host of others.

Same old deceitful rhetoric: China stole our 5G technologies. That's why we don't have them anymore!

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