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Cyber Risks · Krebs on Security

COVID-19 Has United Cybersecurity Experts, But Will That Unity Survive the Pandemic?

Summary: The Coronavirus pandemic prompted roughly 3,000 security professionals to form the COVID-19 Cyber Threat Coalition, which vets more than 100 million threat indicators daily using feeds donated by dozens of companies and adds a domain to its blocklist when at least 10 of roughly 70 vendor products flag it as malicious. A separate Slack-based group, the COVID-19 CTI League, spans more than 40 countries and includes senior staff from Microsoft and Amazon, while INTERPOL warned nearly 200 member countries of a significant increase in attempted ransomware attacks on virus-response organizations.

Why it matters: Ransomware gangs pledged a moratorium on hospitals yet kept targeting testing labs, N95 mask producers and vaccine researchers, and CTA president Michael Daniel warns that sustaining this information-sharing after the pandemic is one of the biggest policy problems the federal government will face.

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