As Vaccine’s Approach Completion, COVID-19 Unleashes New Threat: Fraud

Three pharmaceutical companies have come forward over the last few days with promising information about their vaccines being ready for distribution with effectiveness rates of over 90%. However, with the good, comes the bad. On Sunday, The Guardian mentioned our next deadly battle with COVID-19: intellectual property wars. “State-sponsored hackers from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are engaged in concerted attempts to steal coronavirus vaccine secrets in what security experts describe as ‘an intellectual property war” reports The Guardian. In this type of war, “they accuse hostile-state hackers of trying to obtain trial results early and seize sensitive information


