Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 6:27:53 GMT -5
The research being carried out in Spain to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 would have been the subject of cyberattacks by a Chinese APT – persistent threat. In other words, by cyber spies or cybercriminals backed by the Chinese State. This is what the director of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), Paz Esteban, warned this Thursday, according to the newspaper El País this Friday . The director of the CNI assured in a conference before the media on the defense of cyberspace that took place this Thursday that there had been cyberattacks and "a campaign, especially virulent, not only in Spain, against laboratories that work in the search for a vaccine for COVID-19.
The newspaper reveals, citing sources familiar with the facts, that the majority of these cyberattacks would have their origin in China and Russia, although at the same event this Thursday the head of the Department of Homeland Security, the commander of the Joint Cyberspace Command of the The Armed Forces as well as the director of the National Cybersecurity Middle East Phone Number List Institute warned how difficult it is to be able to attribute this type of computer incursions to any foreign state. Read more: Isabel Sola, CSIC researcher: "Our vaccines are as competitive and powerful as those being developed internationally" There are several parallel investigations that seek to develop a vaccine against coronavirus in Spain.
However, neither the CSIC , nor the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, nor the National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology ( INIA ) nor the University of Santiago de Compostela are aware of having received any computer attack, according to what has been reported. the same newspaper could confirm. However, CSIC researchers were called to a meeting prior to this summer to warn them to increase all cybersecurity measures. According to the same information, in July a federal court in Washington accused two Chinese citizens from Canton of having hacked high-tech companies, NGOs, activists and governments of several countries, including Spain, for years.