Exclusive: Suspected North Korean hackers targeted COVID vaccine maker AstraZeneca - sources

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Exclusive: Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, sources tell Reuters, as the company races to deploy its vaccine for the COVID-19 virus by jc_stubbs

FILE PHOTO: A test tube labeled with the vaccine is seen in front of AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken, September 9, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic//File Photo

The North Korean mission to the United Nations in Geneva did not respond to a request for comment. Pyongyang has previously denied carrying out cyberattacks. It has no direct line of contact for foreign media. The campaign has previously focused on defence companies and media organisations but pivoted to COVID-related targets in recent weeks, according to three people who have investigated the attacks.

Microsoft said this month it had seen two North Korean hacking groups target vaccine developers in multiple countries, including by “sending messages with fabricated job descriptions.” Microsoft did not name any of the targeted organisations.

 

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jc_stubbs I mean I don't see how hacking for information about how to make a vaccine that could save lives is ethically wrong. Can they even purchase the vaccine outright or do the embargoes prevent that?

jc_stubbs Let’s be serious though, they still don’t even have 3G, or barely widespread electricity, right

jc_stubbs Who cares if they sell the info. It’s a vaccine, not a nuclear bomb.

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jc_stubbs As when they targeted the NHS during the Wannacry virus attack; I am, as always, constantly amazed that North Korea has the desktops and the technological capability to actually do this kind of thing... Oh yeah, China helps train and house the DPRK hackers. Gotcha.

jc_stubbs i thought there was a universal world-wide agreement to share the data on covid. cos lives profit why should innocent north koreans suffer

jc_stubbs Power corrupts like a motherfucker.

jc_stubbs oh

jc_stubbs Motherfuckers aren’t even allowed the internet and they think they won the World Cup and they are hacking us 🤣😭

jc_stubbs AstraZeneca are mainly non profit making and have agreed to supply vaccine to a world wide clientele. North Korea was probably on the list. Maybe not now!

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jc_stubbs Yes Reuters you are preparing us for the massive cyber attack which will knock out all the power grids in the western world.. we know what is going on. You are complicit in this conspiracy and lies for the great reset. This is lockstep and part of build back better.

jc_stubbs Problem solved

jc_stubbs If this is true yikes

jc_stubbs No they haven't

jc_stubbs Publicity stunt maybe 🤔

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jc_stubbs If your organisation knew anything about North Korea, you wouldn't post clickbait like this. reuterstalkpish

jc_stubbs Bruh

jc_stubbs 'According to leaked docs Umbrage team is part of CIA Remote Development Branch ..it makes their malware tools resemble those of others, confusing malware analysts as to the origin attacks and causing others to be blamed for the agency's operations'

jc_stubbs The human beings in the world constitute a huge community with a Shared future, such as this kind of stirring up excrement sticks to gain benefits against human beings should be severely punished

jc_stubbs Punish the mfrs...

jc_stubbs Why the hell would North Korea be targeting vaccine makers?

jc_stubbs I wonder how the DPRK will behave with a JoeBiden administration.

jc_stubbs 'Self-reliance' lol

jc_stubbs Did the hacker plant a virus?

jc_stubbs 'North Korean hackers' ? oookay lol

jc_stubbs Well they must have had a reason to want to.

jc_stubbs Its weird how Reuters could write a story with no evidence and stating anonymous source but everyone here just accept it as gospel truth.

jc_stubbs Why didn't kim just ask bestie trump for help developing their own?

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jc_stubbs Lol you dopes, this is additional c I a talking points to justify invading another country. Fuck man.

jc_stubbs 'Suspected'. So probably total horse shit then.

jc_stubbs Mfs rlly tryna get the vaccine from the us lmao

jc_stubbs Really?....

jc_stubbs Bull shit!

jc_stubbs Wait... they have internet in North Korea? We all should be understanding and welcome them to the 21st century.

jc_stubbs To the Great Leader

jc_stubbs But there’s no COVID-19 cases in North Korea 😆

jc_stubbs Orientalism

jc_stubbs They'll be reallu pissed when they find out it doesn't work

jc_stubbs Absolute fuckers. 🖕 y’all couldn’t make your own so you try to steal it. Nice.

jc_stubbs And DJT is hiding. And DJT is pouting .

jc_stubbs Do they have any evidence of this at all or as usual are they just throwing names around? I'm surprised it's not Russia - it normally is

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jc_stubbs You can lie all you want as you have always done in all history, but you will never be able to rob North Korea. Deal with it.

jc_stubbs They must have been trying to steal the Union Jacks

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jc_stubbs How did North Korean even get Rona when they are practically living off the grid?

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jc_stubbs Absolutely despicable.

jc_stubbs We all know the election was rigged. HACKERS...

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jc_stubbs North Korean hackers my ass

jc_stubbs implying that north koreans have the resources to even just learn how to code and especially how to hack a vaccine

jc_stubbs How about these big Pharma companies just keep their formulations off the Internet? Duh.

jc_stubbs Or maybe... just maybe the hackers are trying to use the information to give the public to avoid big Pharma making billions off something mankind needs right now.

jc_stubbs how the fuck you hack a vaccine 🤔🤔 nigga just unplug it tf

jc_stubbs To do what, destabilise, or produce on its own?

jc_stubbs Trump told his boy to do it because he lost

jc_stubbs Korean yeah sure they are, does this gov think we arrived by storks and came down with the fairies?

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jc_stubbs Where's GCHQ?

jc_stubbs I found them!

jc_stubbs the fact that the world works this way is horrendous. every country should know the latest on everything when it comes to healing and saving people

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jc_stubbs North Koreans are not that talented to hack Astra zenca pussy.

jc_stubbs Seems like in a global pandemic that information should be available to everyone and not just some greedy pharma company out to make a buck.

jc_stubbs oh no its the sony hackers

jc_stubbs Why is covid vaccine information not open source and available to all for better access to research and advancement of the vaccine?

jc_stubbs On orders from Trump. We have always suspected that he would do that.

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jc_stubbs Why don't we just wipe the FUCK out of n korea and china on the same weekend then go out to dinner and celebrate the death of those two regimes. Just Asking

jc_stubbs It's obviously not good. But do you blame theme for trying? You know they'll be last on anyone's list for vaccine distribution. and the one that may sell it to them has 1.4B people to prioritize.

jc_stubbs So annoying

jc_stubbs Never take this vaccine... Never

jc_stubbs Just ask MattHancock he will leak it to you, no need to hack

jc_stubbs 🙃

jc_stubbs I just wonder how do you know those hackers are North Korean?

jc_stubbs Where's Dennis Rodman? A fishing/hiking/camping trip for ten days with Kim and Dennis could be in order. Like a Camp David Accords though more excursional perhaps.

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jc_stubbs Thing is, if they need the vaccine, they could probably just ask, the rest of the world doesn't want North Korea with covid on top of all their other problems, it will just make them more desparate.

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jc_stubbs Thats Juche down the pan then.

jc_stubbs Well maybe they would give you some if your country would just behave? 🤔

jc_stubbs Maybe because they didnt developed their own vaccine

jc_stubbs Nuke them

The hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers, the sources said. They then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code

jc_stubbs Hacker:

jc_stubbs Hi there , i am from brazil , I have no job because coronavirus crisis, I need somebody help me 🥲

jc_stubbs They sound desperate.

jc_stubbs Russia, China, NK and a trove of others are continuously attempting penetration of small and large business and gov't networks 24/7, why is this special, I wonder?

jc_stubbs They need to vaccinate army members who works with their missiles, then their families, and that's it.

UK jc_stubbs В поисках крайнего.

jc_stubbs They need medicine but don’t know how to ask.

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