Seculert
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| Private company | |
| Industry | IT Security |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Petah Tikva Israel |
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Key people
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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.
In 2012, the company was named one of the hottest new security start-ups by The New York Times, and a finalist in the SC Magazine awards for Rookie Security Company of the Year.
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. 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 $5.35M in venture funding from YL Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. In July 2013, Seculert announced that they raised an additional $10 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital.
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.
In March 2012, Seculert reported that Kelihos botnet, which was distributed as a Facebook worm, was still active and spreading.
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).
In August 2012, Seculert, Kaspersky Lab and Symantec revealed the discovery of Shamoon, a sophisticated malware that attacked Qatar's natural gas firm, Rasgas and the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, ARAMCO.
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.
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