UK ‘confident’ Moscow helped hackers target virus vaccine

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab yesterday said he was "absolutely confident" in allegations by the UK and its allies that Russia targeted labs conducting coronavirus research, branding the behaviour "outrageous and reprehensible". Britain, the United States and Canada on Thursday accused a hacking group called APT29 of spearheading the online attacks on various organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development. They said the collective is "almost certainly" linked to Russian intelligence, and intended to steal information and intellectual property. Moscow quickly rejected the accusations as "groundless", and its ambassador to London said in a British television interview Sunday the claims made "no sense".