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NewsColony Foreign state-backed hackers are targeting healthcare workers and medical researchers The top cybersecurity agencies in the U.S. and UK have issued a joint alert warning that foreign state-backed hackers are targeting healthcare organizations involved in the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Hackers are actively targeting healthcare bodies, pharmaceutical companies, medical research organizations and local governments, said Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in an alert on Tuesday. The state-backed hacking groups are seeking bulk personal information, intelligence on national healthcare policy, and sensitive data on COVID-19-related research, the agencies said. The NCSC and CISA did not say which countries were responsible for the attacks. But one U.S. official and one UK official said the warning was in response to intrusion attempts by suspected Chinese hackers, as well as ...