Coronavirus: suspected North Korean hackers pose as recruiters to target vaccine firm AstraZeneca

Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drug maker AstraZeneca in recent weeks, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as the company races to deploy its vaccine for the Covid-19.The hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers, the sources said. They then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code designed to gain access to a victim…

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