Britain expects hacker attacks on Covid responders to last months

Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab during a daily news conference on the coronavirus disease outbreak at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain May 5. — Reuters

LONDON: Sophisticated networks of hackers are targeting national and international organisations which are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, Britain's foreign minister Dominic Raab said on May 5, calling them "particularly dangerous and venal".

"There are various objectives and motivations that lie behind these attacks, from fraud on one hand to espionage, but they tend to be designed to steal bulk personal data, intellectual property and wider information that supports those aims," Raab said at a news conference.