Author: Raymond Pompon

We’ve already seen our fair share of pandemic-driven fraud and cybercrime, but what can we expect as vaccine rollouts pick up pace worldwide? Cyber Espionage to Steal Vaccine Data A viable vaccine is valuable intellectual property. Beyond the pharmaceutical formula itself, even data on testing and drug trials can be valuable to an organization working to develop its own drug. With countries struggling to secure an effective vaccine,2 such data is a tempting target. We’ve already seen some attacks. In late 2020, North Korean cyber attackers reportedly targeted the vaccine maker AstraZeneca in the UK.3 They apparently used spear phishing via social media…