Reports: North Korean hackers try to hack Pfizer, a company that manufactures a Covid-19 vaccine

At a time when many countries have received vaccines for Covid 19, many other countries still suffer from a severe shortage of that, and even some developed countries still suffer from this problem, and with the fact that vaccine technology is still confined In a few countries around the world, others are planning to take it over

And the latest reports on the subject are those coming from South Korea, where press reports citing intelligence reports from the same country indicate that hackers from the neighboring North Korea state, which is known for its dictatorial regime, tried to pirate data of the famous American company, Pfizer, which is specialized in Pharmacy and the medical drug industry, where they developed a vaccine with BioNTech for the Coronavirus

And the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS), which was behind the news, indicated that it had also thwarted similar attacks on South Korean pharmaceutical companies by North Korean pirates, while some experts say that these hackers are interested in selling the stolen vaccine data to other parties more Who used it to develop a local vaccine in North Korea

And a number of sources have indicated that suspected North Korean pirates tried to break into at least nine global health organizations last year, including Johnson & Johnson, Novavax Inc and AstraZeneca, it is reported that North Korea has not yet announced any cases of infection with the virus Covid 19