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Cybercriminals have also attacked a US health agency in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis And for example, a button. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread in the US, the incidence of cybercrimes continues to hit the country. According to Bloomberg and the international edition of Business Insider , a cyberattack has also hit the IT service of the Department of Health and Human Resources. Bloomberg cites 3 sources whom it does not name, but who are close to the matter. The cyberattack reportedly attempted to take down the Department's computer system on Sunday night, but was unsuccessful. Federal agents detected, just after the intrusion attempt, that false information began to circulate on social networks. According to Bloomberg , the fake news campaign was related to the attempted hack, but no data was stolen.
This forced the National Security Council to tweet on Sunday night denying the rumors that were circulating at that time about a potential national quarantine. Political leaders try to combat misinformation about the C Level Contact List coronavirus Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister. Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister. Frank Augstei n- WPA Pool/Getty Images Boris Johnson's British Government has just created a unit to combat disinformation related to the coronavirus. The UK Executive already announced last week that it has created a unit to combat disinformation that could work with social networks to "identify and respond" to all types of conspiracy theories emanating from foreign authorities.
US agents have accused Russia of creating thousands of fake accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to spread conspiracy theories related to the possibility that the US was somehow responsible for the virus outbreak. Some of the publications stressed that the virus was the US response to the "economic war with China", and that it was a biological weapon developed by the CIA, and that it was launched to fuel anti-Chinese discourse. The campaign was first detected in mid-January, with many thousands of accounts — which previously shared Russian content — posting "nearly identical" messages about the coronavirus, according to a report by the State Department's Center for Global Engagement.
