Coronavirus: Cyber-spies hunt Covid-19 research, US and UK warn
The UK's National Cyber Security Centre has been working with these organisations since the start of the crisis, to offer advice and protection.
"In today's world, there is nothing more valuable or worth stealing than any kind of biomedical research that is going to help with a coronavirus vaccine," senior US intelligence official Bill EvaninaAt Tuesday's daily briefing, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said:"As well as providing practical advice, the UK will continue to counter those who conduct cyber-attacks.
UK authorities are understood to have offered advice to Oxford University, at the leading edge of developing a vaccine, and Imperial College in London, which has played a key role in the epidemiological modelling that has shaped policy responses.Oxford"started developing coronavirus vaccine in January"
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