With global availability of vaccines against COVID-19 still months away, hackers linked to North Korea continued to attack pharma industry and government agencies in search of valuable data, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky warned in a report on Wednesday. Researchers at the company linked two attacks against a company developing a COVID-19 vaccine and a health ministry to Lazarus, a group that experts think is acting on behalf of the DPRK. 

“Some threat actors are trying to speed up vaccine development by any means available,” Senior Security Researcher Seongsu Park explained. At the same time, he warned in an