Todas as mãos no convés: voluntários da Infosec para proteger organizações médicas durante a crise do COVID-19 - CyberScoop

Todas as mãos no convés: voluntários da Infosec para proteger organizações médicas durante a crise do COVID-19 - CyberScoop: Hackers crossed a line last week when they struck the computer network of the Czech Republic’s second largest hospital as it was testing people for the novel coronavirus. Former White House and British intelligence officials condemned the cyberattack. It is the sort of digital depravity that U.S. prosecutors have vowed to crack down on during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was also a tipping point for Ohad Zaidenberg, an Israel-based cyberthreat researcher. “If anyone is sick enough to use this global crisis to conduct cyberattacks, we need to try to stop them,” he said. And so Zaidenberg stepped up his effort to assemble an ad-hoc group of malware hunters to gather data on COVID-19-related hacking. By day, they are cybersecurity professionals at well-known companies in Israel, Europe, and North America. By night, they are sending threat data to health organizations and those in other sectors strained by the pandemic. It’s still a nascent project: there are about 70 people in the …

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