Suspected North Korean hackers have tried to break into the systems of British drugmaker AstraZeneca as it races to develop a Covid-19 vaccine.
The hackers posed as recruiters on networking site LinkedIn and WhatsApp to approach AstraZeneca staff with fake job offers in recent weeks, two sources said.
They then sent documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious code designed to gain access to a victim's computer.
The hacking attempts targeted a "broad set of people" including staff working on Covid-19 research, said one of the sources, but are not thought to have been successful.
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