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...Just seven of the 50 biggest corporate winners of 2020 have gained market value: Chinese carmaker BYD, cyber security group CrowdStrike, software companies The Trade Desk and Datadog, T-Mobile, Chinese technology...
...So says George Kurtz, chief executive of CrowdStrike....
...They include cyber security providers, such as Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike, and semiconductor designers and testers, such as Synopsys and Advantest....
...Slippy Spider and Deadeye Hawk; the online adversaries identified by CrowdStrike sound like comic book villains....
...Once inside, hackers wielded “systemic weaknesses” in Microsoft’s Windows authentication process to get unfettered access to data in some cases, George Kurtz, chief executive of the cyber security company CrowdStrike...
...Virtually every nation-state actor has been targeting vaccine information since the start of the pandemic, so this is not at all surprising,” said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of cyber security group CrowdStrike...
...“This is the most consequential cyber espionage campaign to date,” says Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of security group CrowdStrike who now runs the Silverado Policy Accelerator think-tank....
...Constituents are the 10 most “relevant” companies in each category, according to Milwaukee-based Direxion, and include video conferencing platform Zoom, social media giant Facebook and cybersecurity company CrowdStrike...
...Crowdstrike’s shares jumped 11.2 per cent in after-hours trading to $80.90....
...By close of market, CrowdStrike shares settled at about $58 — 71 per cent higher than its IPO price....
...CrowdStrike did not disclose how many shares it sought to sell or a price at which it would offer them....
...Video conferencing group Zoom Communications has gained 127 per cent since floating, while names such as CrowdStrike Holdings, Fastly, Tradeweb and Pinterest are up in the range of 40 per cent to 80 per...
...Zoom Video Communications listed in mid-April soon after Lyft and shares have nearly tripled since mid-April, while cyber security company CrowdStrike surged 70.7 per cent when it listed on Wednesday....
...CrowdStrike called China “the most prolific nation-state threat actor” during the first half of this year....
...Since then, CrowdStrike has increased the number of subscribers to its cloud platform, which detects malicious software on computers....
...More than 10 per cent of Fortune 1000 companies use CrowdStrike’s technology and services....
...Ransomware operators run like “pseudo companies”, according to George Kurtz, chief executive of CrowdStrike. “To collect on the ransomware, they have help desk support on how to pay the ransom....
...Adam Meyers, vice-president of intelligence at CrowdStrike, said he believed the hackers were less interested in disruption than assessing the power of their threats....
...The Boston-based start-up is part of a recent spate of large fundraising in cyber security, with CrowdStrike, a cloud security platform, Cylance, a next generation anti-virus software maker and Illumio,...
...Ukrainian mobile phone app has boosted investigators’ confidence that Moscow was behind the hacking of Democratic National Committee servers in the US before the presidential election, cyber security firm CrowdStrike...
...Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of Crowdstrike, which uncovered the Russian attack on the DNC, said it was not surprising if state-backed actors are targeting mail providers,...
...“When we discovered the intrusion, we treated this like the serious incident it is and reached out to CrowdStrike immediately....
...CrowdStrike identified two separate parties responsible for the breach....
...The hack on the DNC, CrowdStrike noted, involved encrypted command and control communications and anti-forensic analysis measures typical of Russian-state cyber espionage....
...George Kurtz, chief executive and co-founder of Crowdstrike, which recently linked the hack at the Democratic National Committee to Russian intelligence agencies, said valuations had come down 30 to 40 per...
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