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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 30

The Good | Russian Criminals Sanctioned & Authorities Arrest Suspected Member of The Com Threat actors targeting major U.S. infrastructures and industries were brought to justice this week. The U.S. government has sanctioned two Russian cybercriminals, Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, for launching attacks on water treatment and energy facilities across the U.S. …

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Transforming the Cybersecurity Insurance Market with SentinelOne’s New Risk Assurance Initiative

Last week’s global IT outage made one thing clear: technology risk equals business risk. Insurers understand this, and SentinelOne is partnering with many of the industry’s top carriers and providers, including Aon, Chubb, AXA XL, Coalition, CFC, AtBay, Beazley, Hanover, Travelers, Corvus, and Crum & Forster to help organizations mitigate it. As cyber threats become …

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SentinelOne Increases SOC Capabilities With Cloud Native Security (CNS)

As a cloud-native organization building and providing cyber security software to thousands of businesses worldwide, SentinelOne maintains correspondingly high cloud security requirements and rigor in its Security Operations Center. For SentinelOne, ensuring our customers’ security is a crucial part of that mission. As such, our security teams are constantly working to improve and set the …

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CrowdStrike Global Outage – Threat Actor Activity and Risk Mitigation Strategies

Executive Summary On July 19th, 2024, Windows 7 and above systems running CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor were served a faulty channel file that caused kernel instability and would result in a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) loop and the largest global IT outage in history. The culprit is Channel File 291 (named with a pattern ‘C-00000291-*.sys’) …

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PinnacleOne ExecBrief | The New Global Disorder

In our previous brief, PinnacleOne brought executive attention to the likely future developments of AI’s application to offensive cyber operations. This week, we focus decision-makers on the ten strategic challenges that will define a new global disorder. Please subscribe to read future issues — and forward this newsletter to interested colleagues. Contact us directly with …

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 29

The Good | Interpol-Led Operation Cracks Down on West African Cybercrime Syndicates The axe has fallen hard on West African crime syndicates as part of Operation Jackal III, a months-long law enforcement effort run across 21 countries. This week, Interpol reported some 300 arrests, the identification of over 400 suspects, 720 blocked bank accounts, and …

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PinnacleOne ExecBrief | AI’s Potential for Hacking

In our previous brief, PinnacleOne highlighted the flashpoint risk in the South China Sea between the Philippines, its treaty allies – the U.S. and China. This week, we focus executive attention on the likely future developments of AI’s application to offensive cyber operations. Please subscribe to read future issues — and forward this newsletter to …

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Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Beyond the Endpoint

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) has been the foundational technology of effective detection and response programs for many years, providing security teams with unparalleled visibility and response capabilities across end user systems, cloud workloads, and servers. While this remains true today, security operation centers (SOC) and incident response (IR) teams need additional capabilities ‘beyond the …

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Cybersecurity – Week 28

The Good | Feds Dismantle Major GenAI-Based Bot Farm Spreading Pro-Russian DisInformation Campaigns In a joint international operation led by the FBI, law enforcement have seized two domain names and nearly a thousand social media accounts all controlled by a large bot farm dedicated to spreading Russian propaganda. Under the management of a Russian FSB …

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