Nov 17, 2021
Vaccine research among cyber attack targets
Organisations working on Covid vaccine research were one of the main targets of cyber attacks dealt with by UK computer security experts last year. The NCSC - part of GCHQ - said one in five incidents were aimed at organisations with links to health. According to the NCSC, the growth in reported incidents - from 723 the previous year - was due to it working to proactively identify cyber threats. The attack, where users are locked out of their computer systems until they pay a fee, has become a growing concern, the NCSC said. The NCSC said in the last year the University of Oxford's Covid vaccine researchers also faced an attempted attack involving ransonware.
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