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CYBER

Countries Are Trying to Hack Coronavirus Vaccines From Each Other

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The US has accused Russia and China of trying to hack research groups that are working on a coronavirus vaccine. Is that a bad thing?

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.2

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

The Eagle won.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:24.7

Amidst tanking economies, a mounting global death toll, and surging geopolitical tensions

0:29.2

between the U.S. and, well, everybody, there's another war taking place over the internet.

0:34.9

Nation state hackers trying to steal secrets.

0:37.4

These secrets are on any

0:39.1

future vaccine candidate. Tonight, as researchers race to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus,

0:45.1

hackers from China and other countries are working just as furiously to steal that research

0:50.3

to create their own. In other words, it's pretty 2020 that spies are stealing potential

0:55.5

secrets to ending the plague and not nuclear secrets, missile tech, or stealth bomber designs.

1:02.1

Motherboard reporter Lorenzo Franceschi Bikirai is on the show to dive into reports

1:06.5

hackers from places like China and Iran are allegedly after any COVID-19 related intel.

1:13.3

I'm Ben Maku, and this is cyber.

1:20.0

Lozo, as we call you, here on the motherboard desk.

1:24.0

This is a, I got to tell you, I think this story and this whole concept is not something that I'm

1:28.3

particularly surprised by as someone who's looked at geopolitics, espionage, and cyber warfare,

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