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Phishing ploy targets COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort

by Frank Bajak
| December 3, 2020 3:03 AM

BOSTON (AP) — IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyberespionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization's initiative for distributing COVID-19 vaccine to developing countries.

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