UK, US and Canada allege Russian cyberattacks on CoVID-19 research centers
Source: CNN
(CNN)Russian cyber actors are targeting organizations involved in coronavirus vaccine development, according to a new warning by US, UK and Canadian security officials on Thursday that details activity by a Russian hacking group called APT29, which also goes by the name "the Dukes" or "Cozy Bear."
An advisory published by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) details activity by the Russian hacking group and explicitly calls out efforts to target US, UK and Canadian vaccine research and development organizations.
Cozy Bear is one of two hacking groups linked to Russian intelligence that is believed to have accessed the Democratic National Committee's internal systems in the lead-up to the 2016 US election, but Thursday's announcement is the first time this group has been named in connection to cyberattacks related to the coronavirus pandemic.
The US, UK and Canadian authorities have issued several warnings about state-backed cyberattacks in recent month.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/politics/russia-cyberattack-covid-vaccine-research/index.html
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to find efficiencies by contracting it out. 
He'll call putin and putin will tell him it's all a big mistake and the orange asshole with think that's A-okay.
Whew! I feel better.
Don't we all want to pool our science and end the pandemic?
Shouldn't the US, the UK, the EU, China and Russia all be sharing research?
Oh wait...
It's about the $$$$$$$, isn't it?
Apparently the Intelligence agencies are implying that there are research secrets.
The National Security Agency said a hacking group associated with Russian intelligence was targeting health care organizations to gain intelligence about vaccines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/coronavirus-updates.html
As for your strawman argument about approving of hacking, please don't take my sub-thread off on a tangent, especially strawman tangents.
Again, I strongly feel ALL Covid-19 Research should be shared so there is nothing to, in the words attributed in the NY Times to the Intelligence Agencies, steal.
That seems pretty straight forward.
The National Security Agency said a hacking group associated with Russian intelligence was targeting health care organizations to gain intelligence about vaccines.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/world/coronavirus-updates.html
If, as the NY Time attributes to the Intelligence agencies, there really are Vaccine Research secrets that hackers are trying to steal, the fact that research is being kept secret is a problem that must be addressed.
As I asked before, does it all come down to the $$$$ to be made when it comes time to sell vaccines?
Seems so.
And pardon me for, once again, returning my sub-thread to it's topic. I feel that it's an important topic and deserves discussion.
lol
After all, the OP was about Russian hacking to steal Vaccine Research secrets, wasn't it?
I don't think there should be any vaccine research secrets to steal.
I think all Covid-19 research should be shared between scientists, doctors and governments.
That's stated very clearly, isn't it?
Open research shared globally is needed to defeat this pandemic.
Pardon me why I continue to ignore any and all strawman arguments trying to take that point off on a tangent in my sub-thread.
I believe the intelligence agencies when they say there were vaccine research secrets that Russian hackers were trying to steal.
I was disappointed to hear this because I thought we were sharing all Covid-19 research between scientists and doctors.
As I have repeatedly stated, the only way we will defeat this pandemic is if ALL research is openly shared globally between scientists, doctors and governments.
Who wrote that? Like I said, the posting format made that unclear.
Was that an excerpt from the article?
Which votes did the good Senator Sanders cast against American Interests?
Please proceed.
While I support sanctions on Russia and North Korea, I voted against the sanctions bill last week because it contains sanctions on Iran that I believe could endanger the Iran nuclear agreement. This agreement was President Obama’s most important foreign policy achievement, and President Trump has made clear his intention to destroy it. Progressives must get mobilized to protect it, just as we did with the Affordable Care Act!
Well, so much for voting against America, hmmm?
Sanders was correct to suspect that Trump was attempting to destroy the Iran Nuclear Agreement. In the words of Doctor McCoy from Star Trek, "It's dead, Jim."
Pardon me for smiling while you denigrate one of President Obama's cornerstone achievements.
Former President Barack Obama offered a rare public rebuttal to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, calling his decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear “a serious mistake.”
Obama has been reluctant to rebuke his White House successor, following a precedent set by previous chief executives. But the potential unraveling of his signature foreign policy achievement prompted a 12-paragraph statement on Tuesday.
“We all know the dangers of Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon,” wrote Obama, who spent 18 months negotiating the agreement in 2014 and 2015 . “If the constraints on Iran’s nuclear program under the JCPOA are lost, we could be hastening the day when we are faced with the choice between living with that threat, or going to war to prevent it.”
Trump has long been outspoken in his criticism of Obama and the deal, which he blasted as “decaying” in his announcement on Tuesday. The U.S. is planning to reimpose a set of sanctions within months, though Iran said it would seek to preserve the deal during a limited period of talks with its other signatories, China, France, Russia, Germany, Britain and the European Union.
But Obama emphasized that the deal “was never intended to solve all of our problems with Iran,” and he warned that undermining it despite no clear evidence of Iranian violations could hasten an arms race or outright regional conflict.
Obama also said violating the deal could undermine the United States’ credibility on the international stage. He said the JCPOA had worked to halt Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon, highlighting its international inspections and noting that some of its provisions were permanent.
Well, there it is. Whom to believe? You and Donald Trump or President Obama? Easy choice for me.
You though are free to disagree with the greatest President in living memory who had all the briefings on Iran from our intelligence agencies because everyone is entitled to their own opinions, even silly ones.
I think I am done here. Have a nice day.
You said this:
Worth "something"? That's definitely a slight and minimizing the treaty.
"All it did was postpone", why that's another slight and a textbook backhanded slur.
"All it did was" was this:
The JCPOA’s limitations on Iran’s nuclear activities block Iran’s pathways to the bomb and prevent the nation from being able to amass enough bomb-grade nuclear material for one explosive device in less than one year. Moreover, any Iranian efforts to ramp up its fissile material production for weapons would be detected by the IAEA and national means of intelligence well in advance.
But it's your core premise that seems most Trumpian. When you blithely said this:
It sounded distressing similar to Trump saying this:
Astounding and distressing.
And What did President Obama say in defense of the agreement that both you and Trump claim to be ineffective?
The Obama White House said this:
The Historic Deal That Will Prevent Iran from Acquiring a Nuclear Weapon
(How the US and the International Community will block all of Iran's pathways to a nuclear weapon)
On January 16, 2016, the International Atomic Energy Agency verified that Iran has completed the necessary steps under the Iran deal that will ensure Iran's nuclear program is and remains exclusively peaceful.
Before this agreement, Iran's breakout time -- or the time it would have taken for Iran to gather enough fissile material to build a weapon -- was only two to three months. Today, because of the Iran deal, it would take Iran 12 months or more. And with the unprecedented monitoring and access this deal puts in place, if Iran tries, we will know and sanctions will snap back into place.
Here's how we got to this point. Since October, Iran has:
Shipped 25,000 pounds of enriched uranium out of the country
Dismantled and removed two-thirds of its centrifuges
Removed the calandria from its heavy water reactor and filled it with concrete
Provided unprecedented access to its nuclear facilities and supply chain
Because Iran has completed these steps, the U.S. and international community can begin the next phase under the JCPOA, which means the U.S. will begin lifting its nuclear-related sanctions on Iran. However, a number of U.S. sanctions authorities and designations will continue to remain in place.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/foreign-policy/iran-deal
Well, that is certainly different than Trump's statements and your "damning with faint praise" of the agreement, isn't it?
I took the time to memorialize your prior comments here because they sounded so defeatist and similar to Trump's own.
Honestly, in light of the information provided here, perhaps it would be best if you repudiated your prior comments about what President Obama's foreign policy actually achieved with regards to Iran.
I am truly done with this. Continue to minimize the effectiveness of President Obama's foreign policy if you so choose. It's still a free country despite Trump's best efforts and every American has the right to be wrong.
