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AdvertisementAdvertisementYou know things, geopolitically-speaking, are starting to edge back when a brazen hack thought to be orchestrated by North Korea is in the news. The fact that Pyongyang stands accused by South Korea of trying to is, however, perhaps a sign that we still have a long way to go until we’re fully back to before times. Here, in the present day, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says the target of the hack was American drugmaker Pfizer, specifically its vaccine and treatment data. It was not when exactly the attempted cyberintrusion took place or whether it was successful.AdvertisementNorth Korea quickly closed its border with China, its primary trading partner, shortly after the virus outbreak there began, and its leader Kim Jong-un has maintained that the isolated country is . It’s hard to imagine any country in the world has actually been untouched by the pandemic, but considering North Korea’s current makeup as a nation-sized prison camp, who knows? Kim, as expected, is taking pandemic propaganda very, very seriously. When the South Korean foreign minister suggested that it was “hard to believe” the North didn’t have the virus, Kim responded in a way that only makes sense in a totally North Korean propaganda kind of way. “We will never forget her words and she might have to pay dearly for it,” Kim replied.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementA&nbsp;daily email update of the stories you need to read right now.Thanks for signing up! You can at any time.North Korea, along with the usual suspects of Russia and China, have all been accused of trying to swipe vaccine data&nbsp;from pharmaceutical companies, researchers, and others. “Although it claims to be free of the virus, North Korea has requested coronavirus vaccines and is set to receive&nbsp;&nbsp;of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, according to the Gavi Alliance, part of the United Nations-backed Covax effort which aims to deliver vaccines to the world’s most vulnerable people,” the Washington Post reports. “The statement by South Korean officials is the latest in a string of accusations against North Korean hackers for attempting to steal vaccine technology, highlighting Pyongyang’s ongoing campaign to obtain sensitive information through nefarious means and its growing cyber capabilities.”AdvertisementAdvertisement

AdvertisementAdvertisementYou know things, geopolitically-speaking, are starting to edge back when a brazen hack thought to be orchestrated by North Korea is in the news. The fact that Pyongyang stands accused by South Korea of trying to is, however, perhaps a sign that we still have a long way to go until we’re fully back to before times. Here, in the present day, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says the target of the hack was American drugmaker Pfizer, specifically its vaccine and treatment data. It was not when exactly the attempted cyberintrusion took place or whether it was...

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