Zoli comments on Chinese hackers targeting US COVID-19 data in South China Morning Post

July 23, 2020

The South China Morning Post

Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy & Law

China

COVID-19

Cybersecurity

Defense & Security

United States

The South China Morning Post

"This is information warfare so there's a lot of evasion and distraction going on here," says Corri Zoli, director of research at the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law. "I think the issue is not that the Chinese need more clinical data to sort out their own vaccine programmes." China is more likely to be "trying to probe the US response to what really is an economic and security threat that is the pandemic," she adds. Read more in the South China Morning Post article "US indicts Chinese hackers on charges of targeting coronavirus vaccine data and defense secrets." 07/23/20