Chinese, Russian hackers targeted Europe drug regulator

Last year A Russian intelligence agency and Chinese spies were behind cyberattacks on the European Medicines

Agency (EMA).De Volkskrant from Dutch newspaper  reported, citing sources close to the investigation into the breach.

In December The Amsterdam European drug regulator  reported a cyberattack in This cyber attack COVID-19 vaccines and medicines documents are leaked on the internet.

The Russian foreign ministry did not immediately Answer to a request for comment on Saturday but Moscow has repeatedly denied western hacking attacks.

China's foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment And Beijing has said previously it firmly opposes and cracks down on all forms of cyber attacks.

The  European Medicines Agency Start an investigation with Dutch and European law enforcement authorities but has provided who can do this attack No details were given about it.

On Saturday De Volkskrant reported that the European Medicines Agency was targeted by Chinese spies in the first half of 2020, followed by Russian intelligence agents later in the year.

The Chinese gained access using hacking the systems of a German university, the newspaper quoted sources as saying, the Russians are alleged to have exploited flaws in the European Medicines Agency's two-step verification login and other types of cyber defence.

The sources  De Volkskrant told, The Russian hackers had access more than a month to the EMA's systems.

The newspaper added, They were mainly interested in which countries would use the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech and how much they would buy.

In this cyber attack the European Medicines Agency's initial disclosure that documents relating to their vaccine were accessed in the incident.