[liberationtech] Cyber experts come together to fight COVID-19-related hacking

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 > would be working to combat hacks against medical facilities and other
 > frontline

do you mean when the government collecting , manipulating medical records?

also 99% of the OS used in the medical field using Microsoft Windows the 
virus OS by itself.

So good luck for this fight, failure is your destiny.

Yosem Companys:
> Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat intelligence, the group 
> spans
> more than 40 countries and includes professionals in senior positions at 
> such
> major companies as Microsoft Corp and Amazon.com Inc .
> 
> One of four initial managers of the effort, Marc Rogers, said the top 
> priority
> would be working to combat hacks against medical facilities and other 
> frontline
> responders to the pandemic. It is already working on hacks of health
> organizations.
> 
> Also key is the defense of communication networks and services that have 
> become
> essential as more people work from home, said Rogers, head of security 
> at the
> long-running hacking conference Def Con and a vice president at security 
> company
> Okta Inc .
> 
> The group is also using its web of contacts in internet infrastructure 
> providers
> to squash garden-variety phishing attacks and another financial crime 
> that is
> using the fear of COVID-19 or the desire for information on it to trick 
> regular
> internet users.
> 
> Rogers said the group had already dismantled one campaign that used a 
> software
> vulnerability to spread malicious software. He declined to provide 
> details, and
> said that in general the group would be reluctant to reveal what it was
> fighting.
> 
> Rogers said law enforcement had been surprisingly welcoming of the
> collaboration, recognizing the vastness of the threat.
> 
> Rogers is a UK citizen based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two other group
> coordinators are American, and one is Israeli.
> 
> https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2020-03-25/cybersecurity-experts-come-together-to-fight-coronovirus-related-hacking 
> 
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