The news at large this week has understandably focused on the new coronavirus that continues to spread throughout the world. It's slowly seeping into the world of cybersecurity as well, as hackers and scammers take advantage of confusion, anxiety, and lax work from home set-ups to stir up trouble.
The need for information has spurred partnerships between encrypted messaging app WhatsApp and several governments; on Friday, the World Health Organization announced that it, too, would use the ubiquitous Facebook subsidiary to provide reliable, up-to-date information. The White House, meanwhile, has discussed using phone data to help track the spread of the novel coronavirus, but it's not clear how much good that would actually do.
For those who need a little good news this week—probably everyone?—Microsoft along with dozens of international partners recently dismantled the infamous Necurs botnet. And HBO managed to make a documentary about election security that actually makes you care about election security.
Lastly, an organization called Shadowserver has helped keep the internet safe for the last 15 years. Unless it can raise a significant amount of money, fast, all the malicious traffic it has diverted and contained threatens to spill back into the internet.
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