North Korean hackers have targeted coronavirus vaccine maker AstraZeneca with bogus WhatsApp messages, according to claims. The British drugmaker was approached by fraudsters posing as recruiters on the messaging app and LinkedIn with fake job offers, two sources said.Hackers have targeted the pharmaceutical firm with a cyberattack as it races to create a vital Covid-19 vaccine in partnership with Oxford University.Cyber-attackers sent phoney documents purporting to be job descriptions that were laced with malicious codes designed to infiltrate the 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.It comes.
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