{"id":31732,"date":"2021-02-16T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31732"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:15:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:15:43","slug":"north-korean-hackers-target-pfizer-covid-19-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=31732","title":{"rendered":"North Korean hackers target Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers were recently involved in targeting and attempting to steal information on Pfizer\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jqjfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbbsqqfm_ljnmjjgkgrmnmgjkzznq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jqjfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbbsqqfm_ljnmjjgkgrmnmgjkzznq.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1613606704788000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHXeagbTkhboQIsphMusGMh064afA\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that South Korea&#8217;s National Intelligence Service informed South Korean lawmakers of the threat during a closed-door briefing earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Post, Ha Tae-keung, a lawmaker and member of the committee briefed on the issue, said the alleged hackers went after the COVID-19 vaccine and other Pfizer technology developed around the pandemic. He noted that South Korea had seen a 32 percent spike over the past year in cyberattacks from North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes on the heels of both foreign and cyber criminal hackers stepping up efforts over the past year to go after COVID-19 vaccines and related medical research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korean hackers were recently involved&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31733,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31732\/revisions\/31733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}