Cyber Version of 'Justice League' Launches to Fight COVID-19 Related Hacks

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https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/cyber-version-of-justice-league-launches-to-fight-covid-19-related-hacks-/d/d-id/1337424

By Jai Vijayan
Dark Reading
3/26/2020

Goal is to help organizations - especially healthcare entities - protect 
against cybercriminals trying to take advantage of the pandemic.
[This article was updated at 10:15 a.m. EDT with additional comments from 
founding member Marc Rogers]

A group of cybersecurity experts from around the world — including from 
companies like Microsoft and Okta — have teamed to help organizations fight 
COVID-19-related hacking and phishing attacks.

The restricted-invite COVID-19 Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League consists 
of cyberthreat intelligence experts, incident responders, and other security 
experts experienced at detecting, responding, and neutralizing threats.

Initially, at least, league members will prioritize efforts on helping 
hospitals and healthcare facilities fend off ransomware and other threats from 
attackers seeing to exploit the general mayhem triggered by the COVID-19 health 
crisis. In recent weeks, security researchers have reported a surge in attacks 
— especially phishing — targeted at a broad set of organizations.

But the COVID-19 CTI League's mission is broader than helping just healthcare 
entities. It will also work to neutralize other cyberthreats looking to exploit 
the current pandemic, according to a brief description on the group's website.

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