Seculert Explained

Seculert
Type:Private company
Foundation:2010
Location:Petah Tikva, Israel
Key People:Dudi Matot - Co-founder and CEO
Aviv Raff - Co-founder and CTO
Alex Milstein - Co-founder and COO
Owner:Radware
Industry:IT Security
Homepage:http://www.seculert.com

Seculert was a cloud-based cyber security technology company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. The company's technology was designed to detect breaches and advanced persistent threats (APTs), attacking networks. Seculert's business was based on malware research and the ability to uncover malware that has gone undetected by other traditional measures.[1]

In 2012, the company was named one of the hottest new security start-ups by The New York Times[2] and a finalist in the SC Magazine awards for Rookie Security Company of the Year.[3]

History

Seculert was founded in 2010 by former RSA FraudAction Research Lab Manager Aviv Raff, former SanDisk Product Marketing Manager Dudi Matot and former Finjan VP of Operations Alex Milstein.

In 2011, the company launched their first offering, Seculert Echo.[4] Their Seculert Sense, traffic log analysis, was released in October 2012.

At the RSA Conference in February 2013 Seculert unveiled the beta version of Seculert Swamp, a malware analysis sandbox.

In July 2012, the company announced $5.35M in venture funding from YL Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners.[5] In July 2013, Seculert announced that they raised an additional $10 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital .[6]

On January 31, 2017, Seculert was acquired by Radware, a company based out of Mahwah, New Jersey.[7]

Notable alerts

In January 2012, Seculert discovered that Ramnit started targeting Facebook accounts with considerable success, stealing over 45,000 Facebook login credentials worldwide, mostly from people in the UK and France.[8] [9] [10]

In March 2012, Seculert reported that Kelihos botnet, which was distributed as a Facebook worm, was still active and spreading.[11] [12] [13]

In July 2012, Seculert, in conjunction with Kaspersky Lab, uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Iran and other Middle Eastern countries dubbed Mahdi (malware).[14] [15] [16] [17]

In August 2012, Seculert, Kaspersky Lab and Symantec revealed the discovery of Shamoon,[18] a sophisticated malware that attacked Qatar's natural gas firm, Rasgas and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, ARAMCO.[19] [20] [21]

In December 2012, Seculert uncovered Dexter, a new malware that steals payment card data from point-of-sale terminals used by stores, hotels, and other businesses. Most of the victim businesses were English-speaking, with 42 percent based in North America, and 19 percent in the U.K. Dexter infected systems running a variety of different versions of Windows, including XP, Home Server, Server 2003, and Windows 7.[22] [23] [24] [25]

In January 2013, Kaspersky Labs (KL) revealed a cyber espionage operation dubbed Red October. The next day, Seculert identified a special folder used by the attackers for an additional attack vector.[26] In this vector, the attackers sent an email with an embedded link to a specially crafted PHP web page. This webpage exploited a vulnerability in Java, and in the background downloaded and executed the malware automatically.[27] [28]

In January 2014, the Seculert Research Lab identified a new targeted attack that used Xtreme RAT. This attack used spear phishing emails to target Israeli organizations and deploy the piece of advanced malware. To date, 15 machines have been compromised including ones belonging to the Israeli Civil Administration.[29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35]

In April 2014, the Dyre Wolf malware campaign made headlines as a banking trojan that bypassed 2 factor authentication in order to steal over $1 million from corporate bank accounts.[36]

Awards

Automated breach detection product

Several detection and protection technologies are combined in a cloud-based solution that works to identify new cyber threats.

Automated Traffic Log Analysis is a cloud-based analysis engine that leverages HTTP/S gateway traffic logs collected over time, analyzing petabytes of data to identify malware activity. It automatically identifies unknown malware by detecting malicious patterns and anomalies. Seculert Traffic Log Analysis pinpoints evidence of targeted attacks.[38] [39]

Elastic Sandbox is an elastic, cloud-based automated malware analysis environment. The Seculert Elastic sandbox includes automatic analysis and classification of suspicious files over time. It analyzes potentially malicious files on different platforms and can simulate different geographic regions. The Seculert Elastic Sandbox generates malware behavioral profiles by crunching over 40,000 malware samples on a daily basis and by leveraging data from its crowdsourced threat repository.[40]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seculert . 22 January 2013.
  2. News: Nicole. Perlroth. The New York Times. Outmaneuvered at Their Own Game, Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt . 2012-12-31. 2013-01-22.
  3. News: SC Magazine. 2013 SC Magazine US Awards Finalists . 2012-11-29. 2013-01-22.
  4. News: Robin . Wauters. TechCrunch. Seculert Secures Funding For Cloud-Based Threat Detection Software . 2010-10-06. 2013-01-22.
  5. News: Alex . Williams . TechCrunch. Seculert Gets $5.35 Million Investment For Cloud-Based Botnet Detection Service . 2012-07-10. 2013-01-22.
  6. News: Israeli cyber security firm Seculert raises $10 mln in funding . Reuters . 2013-07-08.
  7. News: Radware. Radware Acquires Seculert to Enhance Data Center Security . 2017-01-31. 2018-01-17.
  8. News: Catharine . Smith . Huffington Post. Facebook Ramnit Worm Swipes 45,000 Usernames, Passwords . 2012-01-05 . 2013-01-22.
  9. News: Greg . Masters . SC Magazine. New Ramnit variant steals Facebook logins . 2012-01-05 . 2013-01-22.
  10. News: John . Leyden . The Register. Dammit Ramnit! Worm slurps 45,000 Facebook passwords . 2012-01-05 . 2013-01-22.
  11. News: John . Leyden . The Register. Kelihos zombies erupt from mass graves after botnet massacre . 2012-03-29 . 2013-01-22.
  12. News: Marcos . Colon . SC Magazine. Kelihos lives on thanks to Facebook trojan . 2012-03-29 . 2013-01-22.
  13. News: Lucian . Constantin . . Kelihos gang building a new botnet, researchers say . 2012-03-30 . 2013-01-22 . 2012-05-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120514102320/http://news.techworld.com/security/3348269/kelihos-gang-building-a-new-botnet-researchers-say/ . dead .
  14. News: Seculert. Mahdi - The Cyberwar Savior?. 2012-07-17. 2013-01-22. 2012-07-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20120719222119/http://blog.seculert.com/2012/07/mahdi-cyberwar-savior.html. dead.
  15. News: Jim . Finkle . Reuters. Another cyber espionage campaign found targeting Iran . 2012-07-17 . 2013-01-22.
  16. News: Kim . Zetter . Kim Zetter . Wired. Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel . 2012-07-17 . 2013-01-22.
  17. News: Ben . Brumfield . CNN. Cyberspy program targets victims in Iran, Israel, companies say . 2012-07-19 . 2013-01-22.
  18. News: Seculert. Shamoon, a two-stage targeted attack. 2012-08-16. 2013-01-22. 2012-08-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20120819152237/http://blog.seculert.com/2012/08/shamoon-two-stage-targeted-attack.html. dead.
  19. News: Ben . Weitzenkorn . NBC News. Shamoon Worm Linked to Saudi Oil Company Attack . https://web.archive.org/web/20160306084047/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/48766448 . dead . March 6, 2016 . 2012-08-23 . 2013-01-22.
  20. News: Kim . Zetter . Kim Zetter . Wired. Qatari Gas Company Hit With Virus in Wave of Attacks on Energy Companies . 2012-08-30 . 2013-01-22.
  21. News: Adam . Schreck . Associated Press. Virus origin in Gulf computer attacks questioned . 2012-09-05 . 2013-01-22.
  22. News: Dan . Goodin . . Dexter" malware steals credit card data from point-of-sale terminals . 2012-12-11 . 2013-01-22.
  23. News: Kelly . Higgins . . 'Dexter' Directly Attacks Point-of-Sale Systems . 2012-12-11 . 2013-01-22 . 2013-01-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130114080033/http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/attacks-breaches/240144190/dexter-directly-attacks-point-of-systems.html . dead .
  24. News: Neil . McAllister . . Dexter malware targets point of sale systems worldwide . 2012-12-14 . 2013-01-22.
  25. News: Taylor . Armerding . . Dexter malware's source still unknown, connection to Zeus disputed . 2012-12-19 . 2013-01-22.
  26. News: Seculert . "Operation Red October" - The Java Angle . 2013-01-15 . 2013-01-22 . 2013-01-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130117084847/http://blog.seculert.com/2013/01/operation-red-october-java-angle.html . dead .
  27. News: Dan . Goodin . . Red October relied on Java exploit to infect PCs . 2013-01-15 . 2013-01-22.
  28. News: Neil . McAllister . . Surprised? Old Java exploit helped spread Red October spyware . 2013-01-16 . 2013-01-22.
  29. News: Israeli defence computer hacked via tainted email -cyber firm . Reuters . 2014-01-26.
  30. News: לוי . רויטרס ואליאור . "האקרים השתלטו על מחשבים ביטחוניים" . Ynet . he . 26 January 2014.
  31. News: Hackers break into Israeli defence computers, says security company . 14 October 2021 . The Guardian . https://web.archive.org/web/20140306202533/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/27/hackers-israeli-defence-ministry-computers . 6 March 2014.
  32. News: Israel defence computers hit by hack attack . BBC News . 2014-01-27.
  33. News: Israeli Defense Computer Hit in Cyber Attack: Data Expert SecurityWeek.Com . 14 October 2021 . www.securityweek.com.
  34. News: Israel to Ease Cyber-Security Export Curbs, Premier Says. Bloomberg .
  35. News: Cyber Break-in @ IDF. Huffington Post . Micah D. . Halpern .
  36. Web site: Vaughan-Nichols. Steven J.. Dyre Wolf malware huffs and puffs at your corporate bank account door. 2021-02-23. ZDNet. en.
  37. Web site: 2013 Red Herring Europe Finalists . Redherring.com . 14 October 2021.
  38. News: Kelly. Higgins. Dark Reading. Hunting Botnets In The Cloud. 2012-11-07. 2013-01-22. 2013-01-14. https://web.archive.org/web/20130114083547/http://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/167901121/security/attacks-breaches/240062588/hunting-botnets-in-the-cloud.html. dead.
  39. News: Andrew . Nusca . Andrew Nusca . ZDNet. Training big data's eye on cybersecurity threats. 2012-12-05 . 2013-01-22.
  40. News: Seculert Adds 'Elastic Sandbox' to Simulate Malware Over Time, Geographic Locations SecurityWeek.Com . 14 October 2021 . www.securityweek.com.

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