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The Russian government has denied allegations that state-sponsored hackers have stolen covid-1nine vaccine studies from western educational and pharmaceutical organizations. Speaking to CNBC on July 20, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said “there are no hackers” running for the government.
“There are no hackers running for the Russian government, so our government does not coordinate or coordinate Apple’s action through hackers,” he added that no person was hired for the explicit goal of accessing the websites of pharmaceutical companies.
Siluanov said there is little preference for hackers to “worry about those activities” because Russia is looking to expand its own vaccine as opposed to the coronavirus.
Last week, the United States and the United Kingdom accused a government-related Russian piracy group, called “APT2nine” or “Cozy Bear,” of attacking “organizations involved in the design of the Covid-1nine vaccine in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, possibly with the goal of stealing high-value data and assets applicable with the design and testing of Covid-1nine vaccines.”
Russia’s denial comes when a long-awaited new UK isC report calls Russia “a highly capable cyber actor with a proven ability to conduct operations.”
The ISC report also states that “quick action” must be “taken” to support the intelligence-taking of “this rather competent adversary.”
The Russian finance minister’s statement that there are no hackers running for the Russian government is “a lie with an exposed face,” says Philip Ingram, MBE, a former intelligence colonel in the British Army. However, he says this statement corresponds to the Russian doctrine of ‘maskirovka’, which ‘masks’ or ‘denies the duty of anything’.
Ingram says: “The long-awaited report on Russia released today makes it clear that ‘Russia’s cyber capacity, when combined with its willingness to deploy it maliciously, is a difficulty of grave concern and pose and an urgent threat to our national security.'”
He added: “Duty rests with the Russian army intelligence agency, the GRU. A team of GRU cyber-experts was arrested through the Dutch open-air government at the offices of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in 2018. Their denials do not appear as shown through the facts ».
Ian Thornton-Trump, RSSI in Cyjax, agrees. “Netpainting security studies are united in the consensual view that Russian cyber operations are an integral component of Russian army and foreign policy operations. Evidence of all known attacks and many other unreleased classified attacks is insurmountable and irrefutable.”
At the same time, Thornton-Trump is never very surprised that vaccine studies target hackers as countries review and end the global pandemic that paralyzes their economies.
Warns: “Critical national infrastructure, adding the pharmaceutical (vaccine research) and biopharmaceutical (vaccine production) sectors, the source chain has seen a design in the CRINK attacks (China, Russia, Iran and North Korea)”.
I am a freelance cybersecurity journalist with more than a decade of pleasure in writing news, reviews and reporting. Report and analyze cybersecurity and privacy violations
I am a freelance cybersecurity journalist with more than a decade of pleasure in writing news, reviews and reporting. I report and analyze cybersecurity and privacy stories that break with an explicit interest in cyber warfare, application security, and data misuse through giant generation companies. In addition to Forbes, you can locate my paintings in Wired, The Times, The Economist and The Guardian. Contact me at [email protected].