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Home » News » U.S. Senator Peters: Cyberattacks seen on coronavirus vaccine infrastructure

U.S. Senator Peters: Cyberattacks seen on coronavirus vaccine infrastructure

by Reuters
11 December 2020
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U.S. Senator Peters: Cyberattacks seen on coronavirus vaccine infrastructure

Ranking member Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., speaks during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on "Threats to the Homeland", on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 24, 2020. Tom Williams/Pool via REUTERS

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Cyberattacks have been waged against COVID-19 vaccine distribution infrastructure, including a cold-chain storage company, U.S. Senator Gary Peters said on Thursday.

“IBM recently released a very disturbing report detailing cyberattacks on COVID-19 vaccine distribution infrastructure,” Peters told a congressional hearing. “Just last month a cold-chain storage company also reported that they were the target of a cyberattack.”

Peters, a Democrat, made his remarks during a U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing on shipping procedures and capabilities for the vaccines, which are expected to start moving throughout the United States in coming weeks and months.

Richard Smith, a vice president at FedEx Express, said his company has been “hardening” its network to protect shipments from cyberattack but did not say whether it had experienced any problems.

Republican Senator Deb Fischer, who chaired the hearing, said IBM had identified phishing email attacks. She asked FedEx and United Parcel Service executives whether their companies or employees had been the target of cyberattacks.

Wesley Wheeler, president of UPS’ Global Healthcare, said, “We are not in a position to say that today,” but added that broadly, the company is the target of “attacks every day” and that it has an “incredibly tight email system.”

(Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Dan Grebler)

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