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According to the Russian security software manufacturer Kaspersky, North Korean hackers tried to illegally obtain information about corona vaccines.
At the end of September, they hacked a pharmaceutical company related to corona research, the IT security company announced on Wednesday.
The investigations have shown that an unspecified Ministry of Health was also affected.
According to Kaspersky, two Windows servers in the affected Ministry of Health were “compromised with malware” on October 27th.
This is the malware "wAgent".
According to Kaspersky, different tactics, techniques and procedures were used in both attacks.
"But we found links between the two cases and evidence linking these attacks to the infamous Lazarus group."
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The North Korean hacker group Lazarus has been linked to previous attacks on ATMs and banks.
She is also suspected to be behind the devastating cyber attack on Sony Pictures that paralyzed the Hollywood studio for weeks in 2014.
Attacks on companies related to Covid-19 vaccines
A few days ago, the German Federal Office for Information Security warned against cyber attacks on vaccine manufacturers and supply chains.
Most recently, unknown hackers captured documents about the corona vaccine from the Mainz company Biontech and the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in an attack on the IT system of the European Medicines Agency.
In the past few months, there had already been several attacks on research institutions and companies in connection with Covid-19 vaccines - in some cases hackers from Russia, China and North Korea are said to have been involved.
Kaspersky also warned that pharmaceutical companies should be "on high alert".