Things that have caught our eye recently:
- LockBit take down
A coalition of the FBI and law enforcement agencies from 9 other countries disrupted the operations of the LockBit ransomware group. The operation seized rogue accounts and servers across multiple countries, as well as 1,000 potential decryption keys to assist LockBit victims. A couple of individuals were arrested. It is being touted as a “systemic disruption and dismantling” of the LockBit group. LockBit claimed the timing was due to it having ransomed Fulton County and thus held incriminating evidence on Donald Trump that could affect the upcoming US election. FBI Akamai KrebsOnSecurity - Cayosoft receives minority investment of $22.5 million for expansion
Cayosoft, which focuses on Active Directory management, received $22.5 million in new investment funds for accelerating U.S. and international growth. Cayosoft will use the funds to hire sales and marketing personnel, as well as for the development of new tools to help organizations manage Active Directory. The investment is positioned around Cayosoft’s recovery, management and governance solutions for Active Directory forests; its solution can enable recovery post-attack “instantly” (defined as within second or minutes, verses hours / days / longer for competitive offerings. Cayosoft - Research on adoption of AI and LLMs in enterprises
cnvrg.io, an Intel company, published the results of its third annual ML Insider survey (published December 2023, so playing catchup on this one). Key findings: only 10% of the organizations surveyed have already launched generative AI solutions to production, the U.S. organizations in the research are further ahead, and those that have deployed such solutions have seen various benefits. Main reasons for slow adoption: need to improve skills (lack of knowledge), compliance and privacy issues (and rightly so), and high cost of implementation. Intel
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