Internet crime has skyrocketed in recent months, leading governments to turn to cybersecurity professionals for help.
The United States alone has at least a dozen agencies in at least one of the groups — the FBI, the Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Guard and New York City’s Cyber Command all have a presence,those agencies confirmed. For some agents, it’s a marked departure from the tight bureaucracy of federal law enforcement.
“Utilizing Slack channels is an effective platform for identifying cyber leads,” he said. “The Secret Service has been able to shift some of its focus on validating these existing leads and responding to them. The platform provides law enforcement access to cyber experts, who become our silent partners.”
“Our main focus hasn’t been on alerting law enforcement, although we’ve had a bunch of folks from law enforcement step up and get involved,” said Joshua Saxe, whose day job is working as the chief scientist at the cybersecurity company Sophos, and who came up with the original idea for the Cyber Threat Coalition. “The FBI has been using the blocklist as a leads source that they then go follow up on.
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