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COVID-19 as both incentive for remote work and phishbait. Offshored trolling. A list of digital predators. US Senate doesnt extend domestic surveillance authority.

Published: March 13, 2020, 7:09 p.m.

COVID-19 significantly increased remote working, and the pandemic is now a favorite lure in the phishing tackle of both intelligence services and criminal gangs. Russian trolling has been off-shored, setting up shop in Ghana and Nigeria for running influence operations against the US. Microsoft issues an out-of-band patch. Reporters Without Borders publishes its list of \u201cdigital predators.\u201d And the Senate doesn\u2019t renew US domestic surveillance authorities. Thomas Etheridge from Crowdstrike on the impact of ransomware, guest is Josiah Dykstra from NSA on Cloud Vulnerabilities from an NSA viewpoint.\n For links to all of today's stories check our our CyberWire daily news brief:\n https://thecyberwire.com/issues/issues2020/March/CyberWire_2020_03_13.html\n Support our show\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices