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claim was raised in the UK that a group of hackers sponsored by the Russian government tried to seize research data on corona19 vaccine. Russia immediately reacted as it was irrelevant.

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UK's National Cyber ​​Security Center says Russian-sponsored hackers are trying to hack the research results of Corona19 in the academic and pharmaceutical industries.

There were various attacks, including phishing and installing malicious software.

A hacker group named'APT29' is a hacker group known as'Cozy Bear'.

They are suspected of hacking the Democratic Party during the 2016 US presidential election, and are believed to be related to Russian intelligence.

US and Canadian officials also supported the allegations, and Britain criticized Russia for being selfish.

[Dominik Rab/UK Foreign Minister: Russian intelligence agencies are attempting cyberattacks aiming at research data to develop corona19 vaccines in three countries, including the UK.]

Russia immediately reported that they had nothing to do with the hacking attempt Refuted the claim.

[Mary Zakarova/Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia: I can't understand it because it's too vague and contradictory. If it is not appropriate to speak, you should not speak. And if you say, you will have to prove it.]

Experts predicted that hackers would only try to steal information about corona vaccine research, but there were no other attacks.