Joint NCSC-DHS-CISA advisories and a warning from the FBI highlight activities of nation-state-backed groups targeting organizations focused on COVID-19 research. UK universities are being targeted, particularly over the last year or 18 months, by state-sponsored groups who have been trying to penetrate our environment and get access to that data. A recent penetration testing study found that researchers were able to gain access to high-value data within two hours on every higher education network they tested.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3564623/how-to-protect-high-value-research-data-from-apts.html