Collaborate Disseminate
Stairwell announced a $45M Series B capitalization. The funding round was led by Section 32, with additional investments from Sequoia Capital, Accel, Lux Capital, Gradient Ventures, and angel investors Eric Schmidt and Michael Ovitz. This brings Stairw… Continue reading Stairwell raises $45 million to secure organizations against emerging malware threats
Ransomware gangs are planning on trying out a new tactic, and it involves the destruction of the victims’ data. Targeting the data Researchers from Symantec, Cyderes and Stairwell have recently analyzed a new version of the Exmatter data exfiltra… Continue reading To encrypt or to destroy? Ransomware affiliates plan to try the latter
Stairwell announced a strategic partnership with Cyderes. Cyderes is the first managed security services provider (MSSP) of Stairwell’s flagship solution, the Inception platform. Available now, Inception expands the capabilities of Cyderes’… Continue reading Stairwell collaborates with Cyderes to expand visibility into malicious activity for customers
A less known ransomware threat dubbed Maui has been and is likely to continue hitting healthcare organizations, a new CISA alert warns. Maui is unusual in many ways: it does not show a ransom note, it does not rely upon external infrastructure to recei… Continue reading Healthcare organizations targeted with Maui ransomware
The ransomware has previously received little public scrutiny.
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Security researchers detected new destructive malware spreading in Ukraine on Wednesday, following evidence of distributed denial-of-service disruptions for government agencies — both of which overlapped with the beginnings of a Russian invasion. ESET said the data-wiping malware was “installed on hundreds of machines in the country,” and there were signs that the attackers had been preparing for almost two months. Silas Cutler, principle reverse engineer and resident hacker at Stairwell, said that the wiper damages a system’s master boot record, which tells a machine how to start up. That’s similar to malware known as WhisperGate that was used in an attack in January in Ukraine. Symantec, too, observed the wiper in action, and confirmed to CyberScoop that it has seen it in Latvia as well. Juan-Andres Guerrero-Saade, principal threat researcher at SentinelOne, said the wiper appeared to be more dangerous than the malware uncovered in January. None of the researchers […]
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Here’s a look at the most interesting product releases from September, featuring releases from Attivo Networks, Absolute, Anomali, Alation, Citrix, Cloudflare, Cyware, Code42, Commvault, CoSoSys, Druva, DataDome, deepwatch, Elastic, Fugue, ForgeRock, H… Continue reading Infosec products of the month: September 2021
Here’s a look at the most interesting product releases from the past week, featuring releases from CoSoSys, Druva, McAfee, Nutanix and Stairwell. CoSoSys Endpoint Protector 5.4.0.0 enables users to override a DLP policy Endpoint Protector 5.4.0.0 bring… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: September 24, 2021
Stairwell launched Inception, a platform for recursive threat hunting, detection, and response. Inception helps security practitioners decisively and quickly determine if they were compromised—now or in the past—by immediately surfacing threats that ty… Continue reading Stairwell Inception helps organizations get ahead of the most sophisticated attackers
Stairwell announced $4.5 million in seed investment led by Accel with participation from Sequoia Capital, Gradient Ventures, Allen & Company LLC and other angel investors. Mike Wiacek, founder of Google’s Threat Analysis Group and co-founder / for… Continue reading Stairwell secures $4.5M to help security teams defend against the most sophisticated threats