Chinese hackers attacked foreign health care, military, oil networks as coronavirus hit China

As the coronavirus epidemic reached crisis level in Wuhan, China, in January, a known group of state-backed cyber hackers launched attacks at healthcare companies and other key industries outside the country, according to cybersecurity company FireEye.

FireEye announced their findings on the attacks Wednesday morning, calling it “one of the most widespread campaigns we have seen from China-nexus espionage actors in recent years.

The Chinese hackers, a group known as APT41, are affiliated with the government but also conduct financial crimes for personal gain. FireEye reports that they targeted a specific known vulnerability in the national vulnerabilities database (CVE-2019-19781 affecting Citrix Application Delivery Controllers) on Jan. 20. The vulnerability could allow attackers to exploit virtual desktop, cloud computing, and networking applications to steal data. The group also hit military installations and oil and gas targets, FireEye said, without naming where or in which countries to protect the identity of their clients.

FireEye says there was a dropoff in the group’s cyberattacks five days later, around the Chinese New Year, which occurred on Jan. 25, which is common among China-based threat groups. China began to implement very strict quarantine measures in Hubei province on Jan. 23 suggesting that the activity was going on as the pandemic picked up momentum. There was another drop off between Feb. 2 and 19.

“While it is possible that this reduction in activity might be related to the COVID-19 quarantine measures in China, APT41 may have remained active in other ways which we were unable to observe with FireEye telemetry,” they write in a blogspot posted Wednesday. Defense One is unable to independently verify their claims.

Activity picked up again shortly after Feb. 19, they report. The current wave of attacks “seems to reveal a high operational tempo and wide collection requirements for APT41.”

The unprecedented level of remote working and living during the coronavirus pandemic has also seen an increase in cyberattacks, most notably phishing attacks targeting individuals with phony links and emails, according to...

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FDA gives emergency approval to use anti-malaria drugs to fight coronavirus

Agency action gives doctors more latitude to use chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 patients.

The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday gave doctors emergency permission to use the anti-malarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat the coronavirus.

The agency's action allows the medicines "to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible," according to a Department of Health and Human Services statement.

"Although there are no currently approved treatments for COVID-19, both drugs have shown activity in laboratory studies against coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19). Anecdotal reports suggest that these drugs may offer some benefit in the treatment of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Clinical trials are needed to provide scientific evidence that these treatments are effective," HHS said in making the announcement.

Officials also announced that two drugmakers, Sandoz and Bayer, had donated 31 million doses of the two medicines to the government's emergency stockpile to be used by doctors.

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PBS reporter cries victim of race and sexism after Trump bludgeons her game of gotcha at presser

Like so many Americans, President Donald Trump appears to have grown weary of a frequently hostile media constantly jousting with him, playing a game of “gotcha” in the face of an unprecedented national emergency.

The Chinese virus COVID-19 has now been fully weaponized by the same cabal that tried to use the Ukraine controversy and the Russian collusion hoax to destroy Trump, as the narrative has shifted away from a lack of tests and is now focused on an alleged shortage of medical equipment to treat those infected with coronavirus.

At Sunday’s News briefing, PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor asked the president about a comment he made last week on Fox News’ “Hannity” about the request for equipment.

Trump quickly shut Alcindor down, holding the reporter up as an example of why so many people distrust the media.

“Why don’t you act in a little more positive — it’s always get ya, get ya, get ya,” Trump told the reporter. “You know what? That’s why nobody trusts the media anymore.”

“That’s why you used to work for the [New York] Times and now you work for somebody else,” he continued. “Look, let me tell you something. Be nice. Don’t be threatening.”

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Pandemic Historian: Coronavirus ‘a Disease of Globalization’

The Chinese coronavirus “is emphatically a disease of globalization,” a pandemic historian at Yale University says.

In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal, Yale University’s Frank Snowden — a historian who most recently in 2006 published a book about Italy’s eradication of malaria — details how the coronavirus pandemic is threatening the globalist worldview of free movement of people and free trade.

The interview finds the Journal‘s Jason Willick seemingly admits the coronavirus is tainting globalism and pushing Americans and the peoples of Europe toward nationhood:

Yet while the [bubonic] plague saw power move up from villages and city-states to national capitals, the coronavirus is encouraging a devolution of authority from supranational units to the nation-state. This is most obvious in the European Union, where member states are setting their own responses. Open borders within the EU have been closed, and some countries have restricted export of medical supplies. The virus has heightened tensions between the U.S. and China, as Beijing tries to protect its image and Americans worry about access to medical supply chains. 

Snowden told the Journal the coronavirus is a direct result of the globalization of the American economy after nearly four decades of free trade policy initiatives:

The coronavirus is threatening “the economic and political sinews of globalization, and causing them to unravel to a certain degree,” Mr. Snowden says. He notes that “coronavirus is emphatically a disease of globalization.” The virus is striking hardest in cities that are “densely populated and linked by rapid air travel, by movements of tourists, of refugees, all kinds of business people, all kinds of interlocking networks.”

Globalization, Snowden notes, has driven the coronavirus to majorly impact the wealthiest of Americans.

“Respiratory viruses, Mr. Snowden says, tend to be socially indiscriminate in whom they infect. Yet because of its origins in the vectors of globalization, the coronavirus appears to have affected the elite in a high-profile way,” the Journal piece states. “From Tom Hanks to Boris Johnson, people who travel frequently or are in touch with travelers have been among the first to get infected.”

The infection of thousands of the nation’s rich and upper-middle-class has driven class warfare in regions like the Hamptons in New York where some of the wealthiest, most liberal celebrities own property.

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As States Shutter Gun Stores Amid Surging Demand, Rights Activist Launches "Netflix For 3-D Guns"

Cody Wilson, the self-described anarchist and leader of the 3D-printed gun movement, is absolutely bat sh*t crazy. He released a new promo video, highlighting several ghost guns, himself wearing a 3M N-95 virus mask, and at the end of the video, Wilson takes a bow at the Fannin Memorial Monument in Texas.

Wilson has pioneered the technology and know-how behind developing plastic guns with three-dimensional printers, something gun-control advocates and the US government are absolutely terrified about.

He is the founder of "Defense Distributed" and "Defcad," which have had many legal disputes with the federal government over not just the production of the 3D printed weapon parts, but also the right to share the blueprints online.

For the third time, Wilson has released 3D weapon blueprints to the public:

"This was the third time he [Wilson] has released such files, but the first time he has abided by US foreign export controls online, using what he said are digital verification tools to ensure legal file downloads," The Wall Street Journal said.

Wilson told The Journal that the latest release of blueprints for 3-D weapons would be "impervious" to legal challenge and would allow the public to access the files for a small fee.

For a yearly subscription fee of $50, or about $4.16 per month, anyone can have access to the "Netflix for 3-D guns" service. This means anyone with a 3-D printer can print a weapon in their garage.

The debut of Wilson's "Netflix for 3-D guns" service comes as gun stores across the country are seeing a massive influx of people who want guns and ammunition amid a pandemic that is worsening by the day. Reports have indicated that specific weapons and a wide range of ammo have sold out as states are shuttering stores.

Gun advocates have denounced Wilson's latest move, saying it will lead to the proliferation of 3-D printed weapons. Guns that are printed don't have a serial number and are considered "ghost guns," mostly because the government cannot track them.

"The biggest concern with 3-D-printed guns and the technical data for them is that they're not traceable," said Kelly Sampson, counsel at Brady: United Against Gun Violence, a gun-control group. "It's a huge loophole and opportunity for people who would otherwise be unable to access firearms to be able to do so."

Wilson said he's fighting the government's attempt to limit freedoms of Americans and expects anyone that agrees with him to download weapon blueprints not necessarily to print the guns, but "as a form of internal resistance."

"For me, this is a political battle," he said.

Wilson has been in a protracted legal battle with the federal government, and in 2018 won the case when the State Department authorized him to distribute 3-D weapon blueprints online by issuing Defense Distributed a license to do so.

Another lawsuit was brought against Wilson by the Seattle federal court last year, which recently forced Defense Distributed to offer the blueprints behind "four levels of security, including IP geolocation and proxy detection and technology developed for credit bureaus and anti-money-laundering specialists" on the website, the Journal noted.

"The internet is not an airtight, hack-proof system," Sampson said. "Even some of our most secure databases are vulnerable. It's not quite living in reality to assume that you can 100% secure information that's online."

Wilson said his new "Netflix for 3-D guns" service is "complaint" with the federal government but can't prevent people who downloaded blueprints from sharing them online. "I can only tell them that it's against the law to do so," he added.

On Wilson's Defcad website, 5,872 files have been made available, with over 30,585 downloads from 14,016 users.

One weapon that a millennial in their parent's basement can print is called the FGC-9. The gun is a "9x19mm pistol caliber carbine that is made mostly out of 3D-printed components, utilizes an AR-15 or airsoft M4 rifle fire control group, is compatible with Glock magazines and offers a truly effective, simple to build and reliable tactical option for self-defense and more," the website said.

Another weapon to print is the M4A1 Carbine:

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