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Apr 2020
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Joint UK-US warning on COVID-19-themed c...

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NCSC and CISA issue a joint warning on cyber threats during the COVID-19 pandemic. India’s government seeks to limit disinformation in social media. Zoom works on privacy issues, and government contact-tracking apps face their own problems. A new DDoS botnet, “dark_nexus,” is out. BGP hijack questions persist. Is a front company facilitating Chinese government RATs? Spies and spyware. And a biometric advance leads from the rear. Joe Carrigan from JHU ISI on how COVID-19 is reinforcing TLS 1.0, guest is Pedram Amini from InQuest on winning the Cyber Tank contest.

For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:

https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2020/April/CyberWire_2020_04_08.html

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