Attacks on COVID-19 vaccine research
Kaspersky records cyberattacks on pharmaceutical companies and a department of a health ministry. The attacks on COVID-19 vaccine research point to the Lazarus group. Kaspersky researchers identified two targeted attacks on facilities linked to the COVID-19 research in the fall. A health ministry and a pharmaceutical company were affected. The Kaspersky experts assume that the infamous Lazarus group is behind these attacks. Attack pattern points to Lazarus The first attack took place on a facility of a health ministry, whereby two Windows servers were compromised with sophisticated malware on October 27, 2020. The analysis of the already known ...