2010 headquarters petah tikva israel key people dudi matot co founder and ceo aviv raff co founder and cto alex milstein co founder and coo website http www.seculert.com seculert is a cloud based cyber security technology company based in israel . the company s technology is designed to detect breaches and advanced persistent threats apts attacking networks . seculert s business is 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 contents 1 history 1.1 notable alerts 1.2 awards 2 automated breach detection product 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . seculert is privately funded and headquartered in petah tikva israel . in july 2012 the company announced 5.35 m 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 notable alerts edit 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 . 7 8 9 in march 2012 seculert reported that kelihos botnet which was distributed as a facebook worm was still active and spreading . 10 11 12 in july 2012 seculert in conjunction with kaspersky labs uncovered an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting iran and other middle eastern countries dubbed mahdi malware . 13 14 15 16 in august 2012 seculert kaspersky lab and symantec revealed the discovery of shamoon 17 a sophisticated malware that attacked qatar s natural gas firm rasgas and the saudi arabian oil company aramco . 18 19 20 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 . 21 22 23 24 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 . 25 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 . 26 27 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 civil administration of judea and samaria . 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 the dyre wolf malware campaign made headlines in early april as a banking trojan that bypassed 2 factor authentication in order to steal over 1 million from corporate bank accounts . awards edit 2013 rookie security company awards finalist sc magazine 35 2013 red herring europe finalists 36 automated breach detection product edit 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 . 37 38 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 . 39 references edit seculert . retrieved 22 january 2013 . perlroth nicole 2012 12 31 . outmaneuvered at their own game antivirus makers struggle to adapt . the new york times . retrieved 2013 01 22 . 2013 sc magazine us awards finalists . sc magazine . 2012 11 29 . retrieved 2013 01 22 . wauters robin 2010 10 06 . seculert secures funding for cloud based threat detection software . techcrunch . retrieved 2013 01 22 . williams alex 2012 07 10 . seculert gets 5.35 million investment for cloud based botnet detection service . techcrunch . retrieved 2013 01 22 . israeli cyber security firm seculert raises 10 mln in funding . reuters . 2013 07 08 . smith catharine 2012 01 05 . facebook ramnit worm swipes 45 000 usernames passwords . huffington post . retrieved 2013 01 22 . masters greg 2012 01 05 . new ramnit variant steals facebook logins . sc magazine . retrieved 2013 01 22 . leyden john 2012 01 05 . dammit ramnit worm slurps 45 000 facebook passwords . the register . retrieved 2013 01 22 . leyden john 2012 03 29 . kelihos zombies erupt from mass graves after botnet massacre . the register . retrieved 2013 01 22 . colon marcos 2012 03 29 . kelihos lives on thanks to facebook trojan . sc magazine . retrieved 2013 01 22 . constantin lucian 2012 03 30 . kelihos gang building a new botnet researchers say . techworld . retrieved 2013 01 22 . mahdi the cyberwar savior . seculert . 2012 07 17 . retrieved 2013 01 22 . finkle jim 2012 07 17 . another cyber espionage campaign found targeting iran . reuters . retrieved 2013 01 22 . zetter kim 2012 07 17 . mahdi the messiah found infecting systems in iran israel . wired . retrieved 2013 01 22 . brumfield ben 2012 07 19 . cyberspy program targets victims in iran israel companies say . cnn . retrieved 2013 01 22 . shamoon a two stage targeted attack . seculert . 2012 08 16 . retrieved 2013 01 22 . weitzenkorn ben 2012 08 23 . shamoon worm linked to saudi oil company attack . msnbc . retrieved 2013 01 22 . zetter kim 2012 08 30 . qatari gas company hit with virus in wave of attacks on energy companies . wired . retrieved 2013 01 22 . schreck adam 2012 09 05 . virus origin in gulf computer attacks questioned . associated press . retrieved 2013 01 22 . goodin dan 2012 12 11 . dexter malware steals credit card data from point of sale terminals . ars technica . retrieved 2013 01 22 . higgins kelly 2012 12 11 . dexter directly attacks point of sale systems . dark reading . retrieved 2013 01 22 . mcallister neil 2012 12 14 . dexter malware targets point of sale systems worldwide . the register . retrieved 2013 01 22 . armerding taylor 2012 12 19 . dexter malware s source still unknown connection to zeus disputed . cso magazine . retrieved 2013 01 22 . operation red october the java angle . seculert . 2013 01 15 . retrieved 2013 01 22 . goodin dan 2013 01 15 . red october relied on java exploit to infect pcs . ars technica . retrieved 2013 01 22 . mcallister neil 2013 01 16 . surprised old java exploit helped spread red october spyware . the register . retrieved 2013 01 22 . israeli defence computer hacked via tainted email cyber firm . reuters . 2014 01 26 . http www.ynet.co.il articles 0 7340 l 4481380 00.html http www.theguardian.com world 2014 jan 27 hackers israeli defence ministry computers israel defence computers hit by hack attack . bbc news . 2014 01 27 . http www.securityweek.com israeli defense computer hit cyber attack data expert israel to ease cyber security export curbs premier says . bloomberg . halpern micah d. cyber break in idf . huffington post . http www.scmagazine.com 2013 sc magazine us awards finalists article 270471 http www.redherring.com events red herring europe 2013 finalists higgins kelly 2012 11 07 . hunting botnets in the cloud . dark reading . retrieved 2013 01 22 . nusca andrew 2012 12 05 . training big data s eye on cybersecurity threats . zdnet . retrieved 2013 01 22 . http www.securityweek.com seculert adds elastic sandbox simulate malware over time geographic locations external links edit company website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seculert & oldid 714148872 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