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

[Boris Rohozinski]

There’s also a Canadian effort which is much more narrowly focussed on protecting hospitals, cities in critical infrastructure but which is federated to the COVID-19 CTI league as well. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid19-cyber-companies-1.5508570

If there are any Canadians here who would like to jump in and support, the group can be accessed from here:

https://join.slack.com/t/covid19cyber-canada/shared_invite/zt-d5097lti-K46xNVA~9i6qpvAZT_2v9g

Rafal

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> On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 .
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> 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.
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> 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 .
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Rogers said law enforcement had been surprisingly welcoming of the collaboration, recognizing the vastness of the threat.
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> Rogers is a UK citizen based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two other group coordinators are American, and one is Israeli.
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> https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2020-03-25/cybersecurity-experts-come-together-to-fight-coronovirus-related-hacking
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