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CrowdStrike announced it has agreed to acquire Humio. Joining forces with Humio's best-in-class data ingestion and analytics platform will enable CrowdStrike to provide deep, contextual index-free XDR at a speed and scale that no other vendor can match.
CrowdStrike announced the appointment of Marianne Budnik as the company's new chief marketing officer. Budnik most recently served as CMO for CyberArk and currently serves on the board of directors of Cerence.
One of the vulnerabilities that Microsoft addressed on January 2021 Patch Tuesday could allow an attacker to relay NTLM authentication sessions and then execute code remotely, using a printer spooler MSRPC interface. Tracked as CVE-2021-1678, the vulnerability has been described by Microsoft as an NT LAN Manager security feature bypass, and is rated important for all affected Windows versions, namely, Windows Server, Server 2012 R2, Server 2008, Server 2016, Server 2019, RT 8.1, 8.1, 7, and 10.
The hacking endeavor was reported to the company by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center on December 15, which identified a third-party reseller's Microsoft Azure account to be making "Abnormal calls" to Microsoft cloud APIs during a 17-hour period several months ago. The undisclosed affected reseller's Azure account handles Microsoft Office licensing for its Azure customers, including CrowdStrike.
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.