Security News > 2021 > June > Defending the COVID-19 vaccine rollout with best practices from the cybersecurity industry

Over the past year, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations have rushed to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.

How are cybercriminals threatening vaccine security?

These kinds of attacks allow a threat actor to collect the vaccine supply from a member of the supply chain or prevent delivery to others.

A hacker could add false delivery orders to a drug store inventory management system, allowing a fake deliveryman to collect the vaccine.

We have already seen a wide range of cyber operations used to target entities in the vaccine supply chain.

In part two of this series, we'll discuss how highly motivated people and even governments are also finding ways to attack vaccine supply chains.

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