Unit 221B raises $5 million to help track and disrupt todays top hacking groups | TechCrunch
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News Summary
- New Jersey-based security company Unit 221B has raised $5 million in seed funding.
- It aims to help law enforcement and government investigators track and arrest malicious hackers faster.
- The company has helped break the law enforcement deadlock in multiple investigations, the company’s top brass tells TechCrunch.
- This is in large part thanks to its flagship threat intelligence platform eWitness and its diverse team of hackers, engineers, and forensic specialists.
- The platform is also used by private companies, including the Fortune 500, who use the collected intelligence to track the threat from these groups.
For years, some of the most dangerous hacking threats have come from adversarial nationstate hackers conducting espionage, Russian ransomware gangs targeting critical infrastructure, and governments [+3677 chars]
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