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EU Commission HQ in Brussels: institutions are frequent target of state-sponsored attacks (Photo: European Commission)

Corona-hackers targeted EU officials with bogus emails

Hackers, likely linked to a foreign state, have targeted the EU Commission with bogus emails to steal secrets on Covid-19 vaccines, according to US tech firm IBM.

The sting began in September 2020 and the "adversary impersonated a business executive from Haier Biomedical, a credible and legitimate member company of the Covid-19 vaccine supply chain and qualified supplier for the CCEOP programme," IBM said on Thursday (3 December).

Haier Biomedical is a Chinese firm that deals wit...

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