All news with #crowdstrike tag

🛡️ On Data Protection Day 2026, CrowdStrike urges organizations to move beyond checkbox compliance toward operational resilience against modern data risks. The post details how adversaries exploit stolen credentials, identity abuse, SaaS sprawl and AI-driven workflows to access and exfiltrate data, often without crossing conventional boundaries. It calls for controls across identity, endpoints, browsers and the AI interaction layer, and highlights Falcon AIDR as a runtime capability to detect prompt injection, model manipulation and unauthorized tool execution while preserving legitimate workflows.

🔒 Removable media remains a persistent enterprise risk, enabling both data exfiltration and device-borne intrusion whenever USB drives connect to endpoints. The article highlights evolving threats — including MUSTANG PANDA’s USBFect campaigns (2023–2025) and late-2025 coinminer infections — and high-profile insider exfiltration cases. CrowdStrike recommends a dual approach using Falcon Data Protection to stop sensitive data from leaving endpoints and Falcon Device Control to block or restrict untrusted devices, both delivered via the single Falcon sensor to simplify deployment and reduce operational overhead.

🔍 CrowdStrike outlines an architectural approach to enable agentic defense across the Falcon platform. The blog highlights Enterprise Graph for semantic data unification, Charlotte AI expert agents for native reasoning, and Charlotte Agentic SOAR for adaptive orchestration. It stresses governed, auditable execution and the ability to build custom agents with Charlotte AI AgentWorks. The aim is a real-time digital twin so agents and analysts share a single, continuously updated context to accelerate triage and response.

🔒 CrowdStrike will acquire Israel-based Seraphic Security to add browser-native runtime protections to its Falcon platform, with the deal expected to close by April. The integration aims to correlate Falcon’s endpoint telemetry and threat intelligence with deep, in-session browser signals to govern user actions, data flows, and extensions. CrowdStrike said the move addresses gaps left by traditional EDR and network controls, and will also work with planned SGNL continuous authorization capabilities to enable dynamic, session-level permissions.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced intent to acquire Seraphic to extend the Falcon platform into browsers and enforce security within live sessions across Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox and agentic browsers on managed and unmanaged devices. The integration promises in-session zero-trust enforcement, protection for AI interactions, randomized JavaScript engine defenses, and agentless-style controls for contractors. Combined with SGNL’s continuous authorization technology, CrowdStrike aims to deliver unified, identity-driven browser security without forcing browser replacement.

🔐 CrowdStrike will acquire identity security startup SGNL for $740 million to add real-time, risk-aware authorization that grants or revokes access based on current signals rather than static permissions. The deal, expected to close in CrowdStrike’s fiscal Q1 ending April 30, will be paid mostly in cash with some stock subject to vesting. SGNL’s technology layers with existing identity systems from Okta, Microsoft, and AWS, evaluating contextual signals — user behavior, device posture, and threat intelligence — to enforce continuous authorization and address rising machine-identity and AI-agent risks.

🔒 CrowdStrike announced an agreement to acquire SGNL to enhance identity-first security across its Falcon platform. The acquisition will integrate SGNL into Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security, providing continuous, context-aware authorization for human, non-human, and AI agent identities. SGNL’s runtime enforcement layer will ingest Falcon risk signals and centralize telemetry to enable just-in-time access, replacing standing privileges with dynamic, risk-aware permissions to reduce the identity attack surface.

⚡ CrowdStrike’s Malware Analysis Agent, launched as part of the Threat AI initiative at Fal.Con 2025, automates file triage to produce near-real-time, confidence-scored intelligence for analysts. The agent runs parallel static analysis and dynamic sandbox detonations, correlates findings with CrowdStrike’s threat repository and more than 5,000 YARA rules, and synthesizes behavioral summaries, classification, and remediation guidance. Integrated with Falcon Fusion SOAR and APIs, it can trigger automated hunts, deploy protections, export IOCs, and isolate hosts to accelerate response and reduce analyst backlog.

🔒 CrowdStrike and NVIDIA operationalized Nemotron LLMs to enable natural-language-to-CQL translation inside the Falcon platform. They leveraged millions of analyst queries, AST-based deduplication, and a PII scrubbing pipeline, then used NVIDIA NeMo Data Designer to generate synthetic natural-language descriptions for fine-tuning. Fine-tuning Llama-3.3-Nemotron-Super-49B-v1.5 with LoRA produced improved accuracy, interpretability through intermediate reasoning, and 96% valid-query accuracy versus frontier alternatives.

⚙️ Falcon for IT provides turnkey automations—prebuilt content packs that let operators query endpoints, run remediation, and enforce baseline configurations without custom scripts. Packs execute through the existing Falcon sensor and cover application resilience, file indexing, Linux device control, and operational tasks with CrowdStrike and partner-contributed content. Built-in dashboards surface pack activity and remediation outcomes to accelerate response and reduce operational overhead.

🛡️ CrowdStrike outlines its methodology for training security-focused GenAI models at scale using the Google Cloud Vertex Training Cluster and an infrastructure-as-code approach. The team leverages Slurm for workload scheduling, modular data pipelines with synthetic augmentation, and a mix of parallelism strategies (data, tensor, pipeline, sequence/expert) to match model size and hardware. They optimize across GPU architectures (H100, B200) using high-performance attention kernels like Flash Attention and NCCL for inter-node communication to improve throughput, support extended contexts, and manage memory via gradient checkpointing and observability tooling.

🔒 CrowdStrike outlines a science-backed framework for training, validating, and hardening AI agents to perform analyst-grade triage and response in the SOC. The post emphasizes using expert-annotated data, reproducible benchmarking, continuous human feedback, scalable heterogeneous architecture, strict guardrails, and adversarial testing. CrowdStrike cites over 98% decision accuracy for Charlotte AI Detection Triage and Agentic Response agents and highlights time-savings and auditable recommendations to accelerate investigations while preserving human oversight.

🔒 CrowdTour 2026 is CrowdStrike’s global roadshow focused on securing the AI era, bringing executives, practitioners, architects, and innovators together across 60+ cities. Attendees will learn to counter AI-accelerated threats, transform SOCs with agentic automation, and govern AI across the enterprise. Sessions include live demos, hands-on training, customer stories, and guidance on using the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform to protect data, agents, identities, and models.

🛡️ CrowdStrike Endpoint Security consolidates prevention, detection, and response into a single, AI-native sensor delivered via the cloud-native Falcon platform. Forrester Consulting's commissioned Total Economic Impact™ study found a 273% ROI over three years and payback in under six months for a modeled global organization. The analysis cites an 80% reduction in endpoint breach risk, a 95% cut in technology management labor, and over 30,500 hours saved across security and technical teams. Customers reported faster investigations, reduced alert noise, and simplified operations that enabled faster integration of new sites and acquisitions.

🛡️ CrowdStrike announced general availability of Falcon AI Detection and Response (AIDR), an extension of the Falcon platform designed to protect the prompt and agent interaction layer where people, models and autonomous agents exchange instructions. AIDR offers unified visibility across endpoints, applications, MCP servers and API gateways, real-time detection of prompt injection and jailbreaks, automated data protection and attribute-based access controls. It supports browser extensions, application SDKs, gateway integrations and cloud log analysis for runtime enforcement and investigations.

🔒Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms combine elements of SIEM, EDR and SOAR to deliver unified visibility, real-time threat detection and automated response across endpoints, networks and cloud environments. The article outlines evaluation criteria — integration with existing investments, policy and rule management, and usability/training — and notes subscription pricing and staffing as primary cost considerations. It then lists prominent XDR offerings from vendors such as Bitdefender, CrowdStrike, Microsoft and others.

🛡️ Researchers warn that a wave of malicious GitHub repositories are distributing a newly observed JavaScript-based RAT called PyStoreRAT, delivered via minimal Python/JS loader stubs that fetch and execute remote HTA files through mshta.exe. The deceptive projects — marketed as OSINT utilities, DeFi bots, GPT wrappers, and developer tools — often exhibit non-functional or placeholder interfaces designed to build trust. Once executed, the multi-stage implant can run EXE, DLL, PowerShell, MSI, Python, and HTA modules and deploys a follow-on information stealer, Rhadamanthys. The initial stage also checks for security products such as CrowdStrike and Cybereason to reduce visibility and establishes persistence via a scheduled task masquerading as an NVIDIA update.

🔔 Microsoft’s December 2025 Patch Tuesday addresses 57 CVEs, including one actively exploited Important zero‑day in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver and two publicly disclosed Important zero‑days impacting GitHub Copilot for JetBrains and PowerShell. Two Critical RCE flaws in Microsoft Office increase urgency for enterprise patching and remediation. Organizations should prioritize applying Microsoft fixes, adopt layered mitigations where patches are delayed, and use CrowdStrike Falcon dashboards to track affected assets and remediation progress.

🛡️ CrowdStrike’s Falcon Shield adds centralized, cross-platform visibility and governance for AI agents while natively integrating first-party SaaS telemetry into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. The update automatically inventories and classifies agents, maps privileges to human and service identities, and detects risky configurations and agent-to-agent misuse. Teams can alert or suspend agents and associated accounts through Falcon Fusion SOAR, applying human identity controls to AI-driven automation.

🔎 Amazon CloudWatch now provides unified data management and analytics to consolidate operational, security, and compliance data across AWS and third-party sources. The launch enables organization-wide ingestion from AWS sources such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon VPC, and Amazon WAF, plus managed collectors for CrowdStrike, Okta, and Palo Alto Networks. Customers can use pipelines to transform and enrich logs to standard formats like OCSF and define facets for faster insights. Data can be stored in managed Amazon S3 Tables at no additional storage charge and queried natively or with any Apache Iceberg-compatible analytics tool.