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Leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike was notified by Microsoft that threat actors had attempted to read the company's emails through compromised by Microsoft Azure credentials. While performing their investigation, CrowdStrike was told by Microsoft on December 15th that a compromised Microsoft Azure reseller's account was used to try and read CrowdStrike's emails.

Malwarebytes announced that it will be offering their remediation solution to CrowdStrike customers to elevate and simplify enterprise remediation efforts. When used together, Malwarebytes Remediation for CrowdStrike and the CrowdStrike Falcon platform provide a comprehensive solution for preventing a compromised device from becoming a full-scale breach.

CrowdStrike announced the new CrowdStrike Falcon X Recon module that will provide customers an increased level of situational awareness through the deep, broad collection of data from digital sources. Falcon X Recon is being introduced to proactively collect and inform CrowdStrike customers about fraudulent activity, stolen data, threats to enterprises, and identified exploits and tools in the adversaries' arsenals.

CrowdStrike announced it has agreed to acquire Preempt Security, provider of zero trust and conditional access technology for real-time access control and threat prevention. Together, CrowdStrike and Preempt will provide a modern zero trust security architecture and threat protection to keep organizations' users, endpoints, and data safe from modern attacks, without compromising productivity or the user experience.

CrowdStrike on Wednesday announced that it has agreed to acquire Preempt Security, a provider of Zero Trust and access control technology, in a deal valued at roughly $96 million. CrowdStrike plans integrate Preempt's technology into the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to help customers achieve end-to-end visibility and enforcement on identity data.

CrowdStrike announced the expansion of support for Amazon Web Services with new capabilities that deliver integrations for the compute services and cloud services categories. The CrowdStrike Falcon platform delivers advanced threat protection and comprehensive visibility that scale to secure cloud workloads and container deployments across organizations.

CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced the CrowdStrike Falcon platform is bolstering its Linux protection capabilities with additional features, including machine learning prevention, custom Indicators of Attack and dynamic IoAs. CrowdStrike delivers proven breach prevention and visibility from its cloud-delivered platform via a single lightweight agent that supports endpoints and cloud workloads on all platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile devices.

Attivo Networks, an award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, announced an integration with CrowdStrike, a leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, to provide organizations an integrated defensive strategy based on the Attivo ThreatDefend platform and the CrowdStrike Falcon endpoint protection platform. The joint solution provides early and accurate threat detection coupled with the ability to automatically quarantine a compromised endpoint.

Through this growing partnership, CrowdStrike customers can now proactively reduce their endpoint attack surface by up to 80%, and dramatically reduce the alert fatigue caused by unpatched and misconfigured systems. Automox's cloud-native cyber hygiene platform automates the fundamentals of endpoint hardening to dramatically reduce corporate attack surface up to 80% while decreasing alert fatigue common in downstream endpoint detection and response tools.

Threat actors linked to China increasingly targeted the telecommunications sector in 2019, according to endpoint security firm CrowdStrike. In the case of the telecom sector, many of the attacks were attributed to China-linked hacker groups, including the ones tracked as Wicked Panda, Emissary Panda, and Lotus Panda.