Malware/Virus Outbreak international alerts

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m1013828

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#215454 28-Jun-2017 11:00

I work in an RMM role, and today I was the last to know about the Petya/Goldeneye outbreak worldwide, not ideal. Most of the time I pick it up on the news at the same times as everyone else.

What notification services are people using for being alerted to global level attacks/outbreaks that aren't too noisy? I looked at a few, and it seemed they were full of noise, I dont care about minor exploit notifications for software x y and z, just the headline grabbing ones like WannaCry and this new Petya/Goldeneye etc.

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#1808151 28-Jun-2017 11:08

While this doesn't answer your question I find https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/ can be quite good at providing info on outbreaks from a sysadmin perspective, but it's obviously not an outbreak service

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Jonski

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#1808235 28-Jun-2017 14:17

I tend to follow a bunch of feeds on Twitter... various Microsoft ones, @ArsTechicaUK, @kaspersky, @TrendMicro, @BrianKrebs and so on. Keep an eye on what Twitter suggests are related accounts. I file them all (with some other feeds) in a personalised list called "IT". There's also @DarkReading, @InfosecurityMag etc. which I'm considering adding. In fact, I may take these all out to a new list called "Security" and add Taylor Swift (@SwiftOnSecurity) to it. Because Tay's da bomb.

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