“Recently, the so-called U.S. government resources accused China of hacking to take advantage of the generation of loans and knowledge of U.S. vaccine research, however, there has been no evidence at all,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Friday at a news conference.
Webin noted that intelligence resources are all anonymous.
“The foreign network can see such defamatory schemes,” he said.
The spokesman said China was concerned about a possible hacking of foreign actors seeking to borrow their knowledge in the race to locate a coronavirus vaccine.
“As we have said many times, China is the world leader in the studies and progression of COVID-19 vaccines,” Webin told reporters Friday. “We don’t want to get ahead of the flight, and we never did.”
The Ministry of Justice (DOJ) last week accused two Chinese citizens running for China’s intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), for alleged U.S. hacking and systems.
“The hackers stole terabytes of knowledge that posed a prolific risk to American networks,” the Justice Department said in a July 21 release.
“The defendants investigated the vulnerabilities of the PC networks of corporations that are preparing COVID-19 vaccines, technologies and treatments,” the Department of Justice added.
According to the FBI, the hackers attacked vulnerabilities, placed “web shell programs” and malware to obtain borrowed credentials that would allow them to remotely access the victims’ computers.
The suspects targeted 8 patients related to “technological designs, production processes, testing and results mechanisms, source code and pharmaceutical chemical structures.”
The Department of Justice did not disclose the names of the victims or corporations selected through the hackers.
But Moderna, who reportedly announced its application for the COVID-19 vaccine in January, contacted through the FBI and became aware of the alleged hacking, related to the indictment last week, according to Reuter’s report.
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Moderna may simply not be contacted for comment.
The U.S. government reportedly provided Modern with about a portion of a $1 billion budget for its coronavirus research, making it one of the leading contenders in the United States and the world to locate a vaccine opposed to the virus that has inflamed more than 17 million people and killed more than 677,000 others.
Moderna is expected to publish a clinical trial this month in approximately 30,000 people.
Webin called on foreign governments to avoid “tainting China with rumors” on Friday. He then asked the media network to avoid publishing unnamed resource data that is “baseless”.