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Business Wire
05-08-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Flashpoint Unveils AI Summarization for Search and Investigations at Black Hat USA 2025
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Black Hat USA -- "Our latest Ignite AI-powered capabilities are purpose-built to distill noise into clarity, helping teams prioritize action and respond with speed.' Flashpoint, the global leader in threat intelligence, today announced the release of two new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered capabilities- AI Summarization for Search and AI Summarization for Investigations- now available within its flagship platform, Flashpoint Ignite. Unveiled during Black Hat USA 2025, these new features provide a force multiplier that enables threat analysts and security teams to accelerate investigations while enabling confident, intelligence-led decisions faster. 'Security professionals today are drowning in data but starving for insight,' said Josh Lefkowitz, CEO and co-founder of Flashpoint. 'As threats become more complex and AI is weaponized by adversaries, defenders must adopt AI tools that enhance, not replace, analyst workflows. Our latest Ignite AI-powered capabilities are purpose-built to distill noise into clarity, helping teams prioritize action and respond with speed.' Threat Intelligence That Gets To The Point Flashpoint's approach to AI is rooted in how threat intelligence is used, by real analysts, in high-stakes environments. Four guiding principles inform what Flashpoint designs, where the company invests, and how AI is integrated into its platform: AI should drive clear customer value, in alignment with priority intelligence requirements (PIRs) AI should enhance Flashpoint's market-leading collections AI should support human expertise, not replace it AI must be trustworthy and transparent, whereby users can drill down to the underlying data With those principles firmly in place, Flashpoint has added two new AI-powered advancements to Flashpoint Ignite: AI Summarization for Search: Is like having a trusted analyst working alongside you, distilling thousands of posts into clear, actionable insight in seconds. The new feature brings the power of generative AI directly into analysts' threat research workflows. With a single click, users can instantly summarize entire discussions from dark web forums, chat platforms, and social networks into a concise, footnoted snapshot—eliminating hours of manual review and helping teams instantly get to what matters. Benefits include: Saves time instantly summarizing thousands of posts – no need to read posts manually Identifies key trends, threat actors, top sources, and TTPs faster Pivots directly into high-signal posts or threat actors using cited source links Improves reporting, dropping footnoted summaries into internal briefings or stakeholder updates. Boosts confidence with every summary backed by metadata and references AI Summarization for Investigations: Is the critical piece of automation that transforms your investigation from an evidence-collection point into a dynamic, insight-generating engine. The new feature automatically produces concise, reference-backed summaries of the key findings from data saved within an investigation. It's built directly into the Investigations module in Ignite- Flashpoint's collaborative workspace, where users collect, organize, and collaborate on findings across the Ignite platform- allowing users to regenerate summaries as new items are added and export the summary as a standalone report or as a part of a broader export. AI Summarization for Investigations helps reduce manual reporting effort, improves clarity, and makes it easier to share findings across teams. Additional benefits include: Reduces time spent on manual reporting workflows Enables fast, repeatable sharing of investigation findings with executives or peers Regeneration support ensures summaries stay current as investigations evolve Reference-backed output builds trust and allows easy validation of findings Exportable in PDF or CSV for use in briefings, handoffs, and reviews The launch of AI Summarization for Search and Investigations marks the beginning of a broader roadmap to embed intelligent automation more deeply across the threat intelligence lifecycle. Throughout the remainder of 2025, Flashpoint will continue expanding its generative AI capabilities across search, investigation, reporting, and alerting workflows, helping analysts reach conclusions faster while reducing the manual work that slows them down. Looking ahead to 2026, Flashpoint will introduce agentic AI: behind-the-scenes digital teammates designed to automate structured, repeatable tasks across collection, analysis, and response. These agents aren't built to replace analysts or run workflows autonomously; they're built to extend human expertise, freeing analysts to focus on the complex, high-stakes decisions that require critical thinking, context, and judgment. Meet Flashpoint at Black Hat USA 2025 Flashpoint is offering 1:1 meetings and live demonstrations during Black Hat USA, taking place August 2–7 in Las Vegas. Attendees can schedule a meeting to explore these key AI enhancements and learn how Flashpoint provides organizations with the best data and intelligence to make mission-critical decisions and protect people, places, and assets. For more information about Flashpoint's participation at Black Hat USA 2025, or to schedule a demo, please visit Flashpoint's website. About Flashpoint Flashpoint is the leader and largest private provider of threat data and intelligence. We empower mission-critical businesses and governments worldwide to decisively confront complex security challenges, reduce risk, and improve operational resilience amid fast-evolving threats. Through the Flashpoint Ignite platform, we deliver unparalleled depth, breadth, and speed of data from highly relevant sources, enriched by human insights. Our solutions span cyber threat intelligence, vulnerability intelligence, geopolitical risk, physical security, fraud and brand protection. The result: our customers safeguard critical assets, avoid financial loss, and protect lives. Discover more at Join the conversation. Follow us on LinkedIn and X.
Forbes
01-08-2025
- Forbes
Information-Stealing Machine Behind Theft Of 1.8 Billion Credentials
The days of cybercrime being committed by the once stereotypical hacker in the basement, acting alone, are long gone. Organized crime rules the criminal hacking roost now, and this is evidenced time and time again by the sheer scale of the cyberattacks we see. When talking about an information-stealing machine, you may be forgiven for thinking of the Katz Stealer cybercrime-as-a-service operation that charges hackers as little as $30 to compromise thousands of passwords from the most popular web browsers, or maybe the Atlantis AIO automatic password-hacking machine that brings credential-stuffing into the hands of the cybercriminal. But the machine in the headline is bigger than all of them. Because it is all of them. New threat intelligence has revealed the extent to which organized information-stealing has erupted in just the first six months of 2025. I trust you are sitting down. Global Threat Intelligence Index Reveals Information-Stealing Machine In Action The latest analysis from the threat intelligence team at Flashpoint has just been published, and it makes for some very disturbing reading indeed. It's hard to know where to start when it comes to the alarming statistics that cover just the first six months of the year. The 235% surge in data breaches, two-thirds of them in the U.S., it must be said, exposing a staggering 9.45 billion records, is bad enough. But this is dwarfed by the 800% rise that has been observed in stolen credentials, with 1.8 billion compromised by information-stealers. The two sets of numbers are, however, intrinsically linked: unauthorized access accounted for nearly 78% of all reported data breach incidents. No wonder infostealers are the initial access weapon of choice for so many criminal hackers. The rise of identity as a primary attack vector is, without a shadow of a doubt, fueled by infostealers. 'They enable initial access that can cascade into significant data breaches across organizations and their supply chains,' the report warned, and have 'gained traction due to their low cost, accessibility, and ability to provide threat actors with deeper access than many other initial access vectors.' It can surely be no coincidence that Flashpoint has reported a 179% increase in ransomware incidents during the same time period as the information-stealing machine activity has spiked. "With ransomware up 179% and data breaches surging 235%, the sheer scale of malicious activity is undeniable,' Ian Gray, Flashpoint's vice president of cyber threat intelligence operations, said. The report recommended that organizations 'implement a two-pronged approach' that combines the use of compromised credential dataset intelligence alongside alerting based on specific affected domains. You might also want to consider switching to a stronger credentials technology than passwords and basic 2FA, by which I am referring to passkeys, of course. Why make things easy for the information-stealing machine, after all?
Forbes
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Overwatch 2: Map Voting And A New Map Are Coming In Season 17
The map voting screen in Overwatch 2. There's a major new feature coming to Overwatch 2. As Blizzard promised earlier this year, map voting is coming to the game and it'll be available when Season 17 goes live on June 24. There's also, at last, a brand-new Flashpoint map. The map voting feature will be in both Quick Play and Competitive – it wouldn't really make sense for Stadium. Here's how it works: once the roles are set, three randomized map options will pop up. Your vote will add a one in 10 chance to the odds of your preferred map being selected. A "roulette-style roll" will then determine which map the two teams will play on. The more votes a map gets, the more likely it is that's where you'll do battle. If you don't love any of the maps that pop up in the voting screen, you might be out of luck. Leaver penalties will be in play when voting starts, so if you back out, you might be locked out of playing Quick Play or Competitive for a while. During the map voting phase, you won't be able to see which specific players picked each map. Battle tags and team chat are also hidden. It's unclear whether you'll still be able to discuss map picks with your teammates in group voice chat. Along with map voting, there will be a brand-new map in Season 17 of Overwatch 2. It's been a very long time coming, but there will finally be a new Flashpoint map available. Aatlis will be just the third Flashpoint map in the game, and it'll be nice to have anotehr one in the rotation. Aatlis is set in Morocco. Here's how Blizzard describes it: "From lush gardens to luxury resort spaces, this one is built for tighter fights, cleaner rotations and fast-paced momentum." That sounds pretty good to me. I don't have much else to say about Aatlis, in large part because I don't know anything else about it at the minute, but here are some screenshots to tide you over until Season 17 of Overwatch 2 arrives next week: New Overwatch 2 Flashpoint map Aatlis New Overwatch 2 Flashpoint map Aatlis New Overwatch 2 Flashpoint map Aatlis There's a lot more coming in Season 17 of Overwatch 2, so check out my blog for more of what we know so far. Follow my blog for coverage of video games (including Overwatch 2) and word games. It helps me out a lot! Follow me on Bluesky too! It's fun there. And make sure to subscribe to my newsletter, Pastimes!
Newsweek
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Newsweek
Fox Reporters in Tel Aviv Capture Missile Strikes Live: 'Everyone Move Now'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A barrage of ballistic missiles on Israel forced a television reporter to take cover as he shouted for his colleagues to urgently move to safety. Fox News reporter Trey Yingst was standing on a balcony as short-range missiles behind him appeared to come closer before being intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defense system. The footage of the incident preceded a night in which Israel and Iran traded fire, with explosions heard in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Tehran. Andrew Borene, the executive director for global security at the threat intelligence firm Flashpoint, told Newsweek that escalation was likely. An emergency worker carrying a rescued dog named Tes from a building damaged in an overnight strike in Ramat Gan, Israel, on June 14. An emergency worker carrying a rescued dog named Tes from a building damaged in an overnight strike in Ramat Gan, Israel, on June It Matters The Fox News footage of Israel's air defenses showed the extent of Iran's retaliation to Israeli strikes on nuclear facilities and military bases in the Islamic republic on Friday. Israel's attack killed senior commanders and scientist. The air strike exchange between the countries has raised the alarm over how the conflict may escalate. What To Know While reporting on a balcony, Yingst said Tel Aviv was facing a "massive amount of fire." The blasts behind him could be seen getting closer as Israel's Iron Dome targeted the missiles, but the Fox News reporter raised concerns that some were not being intercepted. Yingst shouted instructions to his production team to prepare for a hasty exit. "Right, let's go, time to go," he said, adding, "Everyone move now." When reporting from indoors later, Yingst said he had not seen such an attack on an Israeli city in the seven years he had reported from the Middle East. Overnight Friday, ballistic missiles hit parts of Israel as alerts sounded for the public to take shelter in the strikes, which Israeli emergency services said killed at least two people and injured dozens. 🚨#BREAKING: Watch as a fox reporters take cover as dozens of ballistic missiles hit downtown Tel Aviv as a massive attack is underway 📌#TelAviv | #Israel A massive wave of ballistic missiles is striking Tel Aviv, Israel, forcing FOX News reporters to evacuate live on air… — R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) June 13, 2025 Iran's attack followed Israel's strike on sites in Iran. The Israeli military said its air force had hit "dozens" of targets in Tehran overnight, including surface-to-air missile infrastructure. Iran's representative to the United Nations said 78 people were killed in Israeli strikes and at least 320 injured, most of whom were civilians. Borene, a former senior staff officer at the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said hostilities would get more intense and that Iran's response could include regional ballistic missiles and drones attacks, cyberattacks, or "most concerning, expanding active terrorism worldwide." He said it was highly unlikely that any other regional players would enter the fray, with Iran's closest allies being not states but proxies—such as Hezbollah, the Houthis and Hamas. What People Are Saying Fox News reporter Trey Yingst said during a live report: "There's a massive amount of fire coming to Tel Aviv right now. … Guys, come on, everyone move." Andrew Borene, the executive director for global security at Flashpoint, told Newsweek: "There's no clear calculus for what happens next—'If Israel does X, Iran will do Y.' … What's most likely now is further escalation, both on the ground and in the darkest corners of the web, before any calm." What Happens Next The Israel Defense Forces said the country's air force would resume striking targets in Iran. IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir and Israeli Air Force Chief Major General Tomer Bar said in a joint statement on Saturday, "The way to Iran has been paved." Borene said the attacks marked the opening of yet another rapidly expanding flash point within the global context of a new hybrid cold war.
West Australian
08-06-2025
- Politics
- West Australian
Andrew Miller: Trump & Musk remind us humans are predictable in moral vulnerability and propensity for hubris
Whenever a wedding scene comes on TV, Mum says 'it starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in the sink.' Their passion was hot, but now the bromance is over. President Trump has thrown his virgin red Tesla out of the cot, and Elon Musk says he won't let Donald play with his rockets anymore. If they are correct now, they must have been terribly wrong just last week. Either way, neither is fit to run a lemonade stand, and the world is sick of their drama. Their clowning example makes their mutual war on diversity, equity and inclusion in the name of 'merit' even more grotesque. America will neither be the first nor last empire to fall. 'We are all Greeks,' wrote the nineteenth-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, acknowledging the intellectual heavy lifting of the Hellenics, which underpins all modern western civilisations. The Greeks told all the important stories. Humans are nothing if not predictable in our moral vulnerability and propensity for hubris. Icarus' father Daedalus gave him the advice that all caring parents try to impart — 'try to neither fly too low, nor too high.' Back in the loved-up days of February, Musk swung a chainsaw about and paraphrased Robert Oppenheimer, claiming unironically, 'I am become meme.' The world's richest alleged ketamine user triggered not only massive cringe, but a vision of young Icarus, flying too close to the orange sun. Mind altering substances are never far from the action — even in ancient Greece. Nicotine, alcohol, methamphetamine, cannabis, ketamine, opiates, psychedelics — none of these are new. Percy Shelley used opium and laudanum to 'dampen his nerves,' between arguments with his neighbours about his pistol shooting, radical politics and 'science experiments.' President Trump spuriously claims his right to impose tariffs is based on a fentanyl trafficking crisis. A year ago, I wrote of Musk — 'when it comes to the chemical modulation of our impossibly complex brain, the stakes are much higher than boring old money.' Now his whole house of cards is wobbling and the one president who possibly might have shored it up is brandishing a flame-thrower. In properly trained hands, drugs can be useful. I have been employing ketamine and opiates all week. How to use them safely and sparingly though is a matter of dispassionate science — populism does not make for good medicine. In November 2019, I appeared on Channel 7's Flashpoint programme, alongside then low-flying WA Health Minister, now Premier Roger Cook. As he announced that GPs would be permitted to openly prescribe medicinal cannabis henceforth, I was watching the face of another panelist — the CEO of a start-up cannabis supplier. Her blushing visage could only be described as 'just told she won the lottery.' I was called cynical at the time, but in the second half of 2024 eight doctors alone — assisted by eager pharmaceutical companies — wrote over 80,000 scripts for the highest strength cannabis, much of it to be smoked. Over 400,000 Australians started prescriptions for the highest THC content cannabis during that period. It's way out of control. Mental health services picking up the pieces of addicted young people are not amused at this State-sponsored jump in the boringly predictable complications of cannabis. 'First doing no harm' won't be good for the online reviews of doctors or politicians, but that's our job. Shelley's brilliant wife Mary wrote an excellent warning about science gone morally wrong. Her protagonist was Doctor Frankenstein. Percy Shelley's 1818 sonnet Ozymandias interpreted a statue of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses the Great as saying, ' Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! ' He points out the irony of egotistical monuments: ' No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away .' Time kills the importance of all men. It ends when we sink in the sand, so let's strive to do no harm.
