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AI officially launched on Thursday with a security investigations platform and $4.6 million in seed funding. AI says it will be used to accelerate adoption of its product.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission is investigating a massive data leak concerning a database containing personal information belonging to more than 530 million Facebook users. "Previous datasets were published in 2019 and 2018 relating to a large-scale scraping of the Facebook website which at the time Facebook advised occurred between June 2017 and April 2018 when Facebook closed off a vulnerability in its phone lookup functionality," the DPC said.
CSAE framework: Smart data science technologies supporting criminal investigations. A frequently proposed solution is the introduction of 'smart' data science technologies to support criminal investigations.
Brewing company Molson Coors acknowledged on Thursday that it has "Experienced a systems outage that was caused by a cybersecurity incident," according to a Form 8-K filed with the SEC. The company did not say which type of attack has caused widespread issues across its entire business - including its brewery operations, production and shipments - but given recent major attacks on other mainstream companies, security experts are speculating that it could have been a ransomware attack. "High-profile attacks are becoming all too common, as attackers have realized they are immensely more profitable when they target large organizations and disrupt their critical business operations - in this case, the brewing operations of the world's biggest, well-known beer brands," observed Edgard Capdevielle, CEO at Nozomi Networks, in an email to Threatpost.
The Woodland Trust, a peaceful British charity that looks after trees, was struck by a "Cyber attack" before Christmas. Members of the trust, which says it has planted 43 million trees since its foundation in 1972, were informed last night of what was inevitably described as a "Sophisticated, high level cyber-incident."
Crowdstrike researchers have documented Sunspot, a piece of malware used by the SolarWinds attackers to insert the Sunburst malware into the company's Orion software. SolarWinds has also revealed a new timeline for the incident and the discovery of two customer support incidents that they believe may be related to the Sunburst malware being deployed on customer infrastructure.
Cybersecurity companies and U.S. intelligence agencies are investigating the possible role played by a product from JetBrains in the recently discovered SolarWinds hack, according to reports. The New York Times and Reuters reported on Wednesday that cybersecurity experts and government agencies are trying to determine whether the hackers that targeted SolarWinds may have abused software created by JetBrains to achieve their goal.
Exterro announced it has acquired AccessData, a provider of digital forensic investigation technology. By combining forces with AccessData, Exterro can now provide companies, government agencies, law enforcement, law firms and legal service providers with the only solution available to address all Legal GRC and digital investigation needs in one integrated platform.
Uptycs announced a robust update that enhances detection and investigation for on-premises and cloud workloads. The new capabilities enable the continuous capture of rich host data for Linux, Windows, macOS, and containers, as well as cloud provider data for AWS -to ensure the broadest detection coverage possible.
Siren announced the release of Siren 11.0. The latest version of Siren is a major step forward in enabling investigative teams to quickly conduct advanced Signal Intelligence, Cyber Intelligence, and Open Source Intelligence investigations.