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From The Washington Post
Hackers linked to a Russian intelligence service are trying to steal information from researchers working to produce coronavirus vaccines in the United States, Britain and Canada, security officials in those countries said Thursday.
The hackers, who belong to a unit known variously as APT29, "the Dukes" or "Cozy Bear," are targeting vaccine research and development organizations in the three countries, the officials said in a joint statement. The unit is one of the two Russian spy groups that penetrated the Democratic Party's computers in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.
“It is completely unacceptable that the Russian intelligence *services are targeting those working to combat the coro*navirus pandemic,” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.
The announcement comes as reported coronavirus cases globally have topped 13.5 million, deaths have surpassed the half-million mark, and the stakes for being first to develop a vaccine are high.
COMMENT:-
If the COVID-19 is as severe as approximately 98% of the world's population (that's all the world's population except for "Claque Trump") thinks it is shouldn't that information be freely available to everyone?
Or is the most important thing to be the company/country that can make the most money out of having a monopoly on treating it?
I'm pretty sure that "Claque Trump" picks the second of the two options and would approach international trade negotiations on the basis of "Unless you do what we tell you to do, we won't give you any access to what you need to save the lives of your people.". This is what is known as "negotiating from a position of strength" to "Claque Trump" and what is known as "extortion" to the rest of the world.
U.S., Britain and Canada say Russian cyberspies are trying to steal coronavirus vaccine research
Hackers linked to a Russian intelligence service are trying to steal information from researchers working to produce coronavirus vaccines in the United States, Britain and Canada, security officials in those countries said Thursday.
The hackers, who belong to a unit known variously as APT29, "the Dukes" or "Cozy Bear," are targeting vaccine research and development organizations in the three countries, the officials said in a joint statement. The unit is one of the two Russian spy groups that penetrated the Democratic Party's computers in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.
“It is completely unacceptable that the Russian intelligence *services are targeting those working to combat the coro*navirus pandemic,” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said.
The announcement comes as reported coronavirus cases globally have topped 13.5 million, deaths have surpassed the half-million mark, and the stakes for being first to develop a vaccine are high.
COMMENT:-
If the COVID-19 is as severe as approximately 98% of the world's population (that's all the world's population except for "Claque Trump") thinks it is shouldn't that information be freely available to everyone?
Or is the most important thing to be the company/country that can make the most money out of having a monopoly on treating it?
I'm pretty sure that "Claque Trump" picks the second of the two options and would approach international trade negotiations on the basis of "Unless you do what we tell you to do, we won't give you any access to what you need to save the lives of your people.". This is what is known as "negotiating from a position of strength" to "Claque Trump" and what is known as "extortion" to the rest of the world.