COVID-19 Vaccine and Cyber espionage News Highlights: COVID-19 Vaccine and Cyber espionage. Less than a year after the first Covid-19 death was reported from China, the first clinically approved vaccine was administered by Pfizer-BioNtech to Margaret Keenan in the United Kingdom (UK) on December 8, 2020. The Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, a messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine, is the fastest vaccine ever developed. Subsequently, a handful of other vaccines have also been marketed, including by Oxford-AstraZeneca in the UK, Moderna in the US, Sinovac and Sinopharm in China, Bharat Biotech in India and Sputnik V and Epivaccorona in Russia. While the world is celebrating the success of the rollout of these vaccines, some companies involved in vaccine development and distribution have faced disruptions due to cyber threats.