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Coronavirus: Europol arrests man behind €6M face masks and hand sanitisers scam

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million by a European pharmaceutical company, a European State reported. “A European Member State reported to Europol that one of their pharmaceutical companies had been defrauded of €6.64 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. The man has stolen €6.64 million by this individual.

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NailaoLocker ransomware targets EU healthcare-related entities

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ShadowPad is a modular backdoor considered a hallmark of China-linked APT groupssince at least 2015. “Researchers from Mandiant for instance observed APT41 targeting US pharmaceutical entities in early 2020, meanwhile APT18 or APT10 have been historically tied to even older breaches affecting this vertical.”

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North Korea-linked Lazarus APT targets the COVID-19 research

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The activity of the Lazarus APT group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks. The attacks aimed at a Ministry of Health and a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine. ” reads the analysis published by Kaspersky.

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FBI warns US companies on the use of Chinese Tax Software

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“Compromise of the pharmaceutical supply chain provides malicious actors opportunities for theft of US intellectual property, while public disclosure can cause cascading effects including loss of public trust in both chemical and healthcare institutions.” ” reads the alert. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Operation Pangea: Europol dismantles criminal gangs selling coronavirus medicine, surgical masks

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Below the operation in numbers reported by the Europol: 121 arrests; €13 million in potentially dangerous pharmaceuticals seized; 326 00 packages inspected; 48 000 packages seized; 4.4 Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Law enforcement officers inspected 326,000 packages and seized 48,000, 4.4

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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

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During the last summer, Google observed threat actors from China, Russia, and Iran targeting pharmaceutical companies and researchers involved in the development of a vaccine. . Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Chinese hackers stole info from Spanish centers working on Covid19 vaccine

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While pharmaceutical companies worldwide are working on the research of a vaccine for the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, threat actors are conducting cyber espionage campaigns in the attempt of stealing information on the work. . ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.