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 Sent fr > On Mar 26, 2020, at 2:46 PM, Yosem Companys <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial > search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest > mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
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