SiliconAngle reports that Flashpoint's new Ignite intelligence platform introduced at the RSA 2023 Conference seeks to facilitate quicker mitigation and prevention of cross-functional risks across organizations' cyber threat intelligence, national security, vulnerability management, and physical security teams.
Ignite, which could be integrated with Flashpoint's Managed Attribution and Automate solutions, has been touted to provide real-time risk information while preventing dissimilar intelligence feeds through reduced silos.
Organizations could also leverage Ignite to consolidate mission-critical intelligence, bolster operational efficiency, and address the shortfall in the cybersecurity workforce with its integrated user experience, according to Flashpoint.
"Flashpoint Ignite is built for practitioners, helping them rapidly locate the most relevant team-tailored intelligence from our world-class collections, returning search results in less than a second. It's also a unifier a bridge between teams that catalyzes an organization's ability to fully understand its risk profile, prioritize operations and efficiently tackle daily challenges," said Flashpoint Chief Product and Engineering Officer Patrick Gardner.
Ukrainian hacktivist operation IT Army has taken responsibility for a significant distributed denial-of-service attack against Russian local airline booking system Leonardo, which is used by over 50 Russian carriers, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
New attacks with the updated SysUpdate toolkit have been deployed by Chinese advanced persistent threat operation Budworm, also known as APT27, Emissary Panda, Bronze Union, Lucky Mouse, Iron Tiger, and Red Phoenix, against an Asian government and a Middle East-based telecommunications provider, reports The Hacker News.
Forty-five malicious NPM and PyPI packages have been deployed by threat actors to facilitate extensive data theft operations as part of a campaign that commenced on Sept. 12, according to BleepingComputer.