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Threat hunting solutions provider Hunters today announced that it closed a $15 million Series A funding round, which brings the total raised by the company to $20.4 million. The funds will allow Hunters to invest further in machine learning research and extend its threat detection capabilities.

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, announced general availability of McAfee MVISION Insights, the industry's first proactive security solution that changes the cyber security paradigm by helping to stop threats before the attack. MVISION Insights provides actionable and preemptive threat intelligence by leveraging McAfee's cutting-edge threat research, augmented with sophisticated Artificial intelligence applied to real-time threat telemetry streamed from over 1 billion sensors.

John Mauger of U.S. Cyber Command came a day after Defense Department officials briefed reporters on virtual war games that digital combatants from U.S. and allied militaries have been holding to sharpen their abilities to counter online threats with real-world impact. On Wednesday, Cybercom offered reporters a window into what it described as its largest virtual training exercise to date - in this case, a simulated attack on an airfield's control systems and fuel depots.

With more and more IT resources moving to the cloud and remote work becoming a ubiquitous business practice due to COVID-19, perimeter-based security is undeniably becoming a weak link, especially since attackers have repeatedly demonstrated they can bypass firewalls and spread laterally within enterprise networks. The first has existed for several years and is now gaining real traction to address the security gap created by the disintegration of the network perimeter.

Over a period of two years, a threat actor sold access to the compromised networks of 135 organizations in 44 countries and likely made over $1.5 million, Group-IB says. Between October 2017 and July 2018, Fxmsp sold access to compromised networks personally, but then found an accomplice who became his sales manager.

"You may collect information on an ongoing or future threat to your organization to include who the threat actor is, what are they going after, what is the tactic they will utilize to get in your network, how are they going to move laterally, how are they going to exfil information and when will the activity take place. You can collect all the relevant threat information but without the infrastructure in place to analyze the large amount of data coming in, the organization will not succeed in successfully orienting themselves and acting upon the threat information," Santiago Holley, Global Threat Intelligence Lead at Thermo Fisher Scientific, told Help Net Security. Holley has worked in multiple threat intelligence and cyber positions over the past ten years, including a stint as a Threat Intelligence Lead with the FBI, and this allows him to offer some advice to security leaders that have been tasked with setting up a robust threat intelligence program for their organization.

CBTS has announced the integration of cloud-delivered threat prevention into its CBTS Network Security as a Service. The CBTS partnership with Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd. enables CBTS to unify Check Point's industry-leading CloudGuard cloud-native security with highly customized CBTS SD-WAN solutions supporting the rapid shift to distributed application architecture and flexible work from anywhere policies.

Employees working from home face a new world of workplace challenges. That's because remote employees have been thrust into new working environments, with no face-to-face supervision and little to no training for handling new security risks.

Particularly in the coronavirus time where people are locked down, and they're not well prepared for that scenario, we are seeing a huge surge in shadow IT tools of late. Rahul Kashyap: So we found that generally, it's one or two file sharing applications which IT people authorize end users to use in a large corporate environment.

File sharing, remote work, and vulnerable employees are leaving company networks open to potential cyberattack