UK and US warn of cyber threat to health sector fighting virus

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US and UK cyber security agencies issued a joint warning to healthcare and medical research staff, urging them to improve their password security amid the threat.

Britain and the United States warned Tuesday of a rise in cyber attacks against health professionals involved in the coronavirus response by organised criminals"often linked with other state actors".

Britain's National Cyber Security Centre and the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said they had seen"malicious cyber campaigns targeting organisations involved in the coronavirus response". British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab echoed the warning at the daily Downing Street coronavirus press conference, noting perpetrators had"various objectives and motivations" -- from fraud to espionage.

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