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22 July 2020Beijing sends US charges back to sender and reports Chinese hackers to report data theft on Covid-19 as "slander"

The allegations were made by the US Department of Justice against two Chinese citizens accused of trying to steal vaccine research results and violating the databases of hundreds of American and foreign companies.

Two Chinese Hackers Working with the Ministry of State Security Charged with Global Computer Intrusion Campaign Targeting Intellectual Property and Confidential Business Information, Including COVID-19 Researchhttps: //t.co/2Wi4HC0JFc

- Justice Department (@TheJusticeDept) July 21, 2020
In particular, the document signed by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Washington (EDWA) and the National Security Division (NSD) accused two Chinese hackers who work with the Chinese Ministry of Security (MSS) of "a broad global cyber intrusion campaign"

Targeted intrusions
The campaign aimed at private sector intellectual property and confidential business information on treatments, tests and vaccines against Covid-19. Hackers, the document points out, "have also targeted the online accounts of non-governmental organizations and individual dissidents, clergy and democratic and human rights activists in the United States, China, Hong Kong and abroad." The industries targeted, according to the document, concern the production of high technology, medical devices, civil and industrial engineering, business, educational and gaming software; solar power. pharmaceutical products and defense. Malicious IT activities would have started more than ten years ago and were still ongoing on the date of the prosecution.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry: "Defamation"
Clearly denied by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, according to which "the Chinese government is a convinced defender of cyber security and has always opposed it, repressing attacks and cyber crime in all forms ". Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said the US must "immediately stop defaming China."

Russian hackers against research in Great Britain
Cyber ​​espionage activities in the field of research on the Covid vaccine seem to be in great turmoil. A few days ago the British cybersecurity agency had launched accusations against a Russian hacker group, believed to be "almost certainly" part of Moscow's intelligence, which allegedly attempted to steal research into potential coronavirus vaccines. The National Cyber ​​Security Center claimed that attempts by the APT29 group targeted government, diplomatic, think-tank organizations in the UK, the US and Canada.

The Kremlin has firmly rejected the British accusations: "We have no information on who may have committed a hacker attack on British pharmaceutical companies and research centers but we can say one thing: Russia has nothing to do with these attempts", Putin's spokesman Dmitri Peskov said, also denying allegations of Russian interference in the British parliamentary elections in December 2019.