Volunteer cybersecurity pros say they’ve stymied hacks against health care organizations

A volunteer group of cybersecurity professionals formed to protect computer networks during the coronavirus pandemic says it has helped dismantle nearly 3,000 malicious internet domains and identified more than a 2,000 software vulnerabilities in health care institutions around the world. “The threats are coming in like a firehose; as fast as we can take things down, there are new [threats] there,” said Marc Rogers, who is an executive with cybersecurity company Okta and one of the founders of the volunteer group. Known as the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League, the group’s membership has soared from a few dozen since its founding last month to some 1,400 people in 76 countries today. Security specialists from technology giants like Microsoft are members, and the group says it has formed close connections with law enforcement agencies. Their services are in high demand as health care organizations strain to deal with COVID-19, which has killed more […]

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