Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2021-02-16 00:00:00
Affected organization: Pfizer
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Industrial-Espionage
Actor: NGB 3rd Technical Surveillance Bureau
Actor type: Nation-State
Actor country: Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of)
Description: North Korean hackers have targeted pharma giant Pfizer in a bid to steal information on its Covid-19 vaccines and treatments.