Spear-phishing Attack on Companies Involved in Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution

Hackers are targeting companies that are involved in distributing an Covid-19 Vaccines. Accordingly to a new research the attackers are performing an spear-phishing attack the organizations that are distributing Covid-19 vaccines since September 2020. IBM Security X-Force researchers said that the attacks are being aimed at vaccine cold chain. The companies are responsible for storing and delivering vaccines at a safe temperatures.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has also issued an alert informing an organizations that are involved in storing and delivering Covid-19 vaccines to review the indicator of compromise and increase their defenses.  It has been unclear if there were any of the phishing attacks were successful.  IBM has said that the attackers are trying to steal an credential for the companies to get access of their network and get unauthorized access to the sensitive information regarding to the Covid-19 vaccines.

 

References:

Lakshmanan, R. 2020. Hackers Targeting Companies Involved in Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution. Retrieved from: https://thehackernews.com/2020/12/hackers-targeting-companies-involved-in.html