Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Wednesday, December 23, 2020 — Top US darknet intelligence company, DarkOwl and the digital forensics experts at Blackpanda are pleased to announce a partnership that will provide Blackpanda’s clients with expanded protection and detection of cyber risk.

Gene Yu, Co-Founder and CEO of Blackpanda comments, “Blackpanda is excited to partner with DarkOwl. Their extensive knowledge of the darknet and massive database of dark web content adds another layer of investigative intelligence, providing a better understanding of the incident for Blackpanda and the client alike to remediate the breach swiftly and effectively.”

Through the course of an investigation, Blackpanda has three primary objectives: to determine if a customer is under attack; if the customer is still at risk of an identical attack; and lastly, if sensitive data has been exfiltrated. By partnering with DarkOwl, Blackpanda is able to scan the dark web, as well as the unindexed Internet, for any private customer information that could act as a preliminary indicator of compromise, existing gaps and vulnerabilities, or any sensitive data being sold on dark web forums – essentially enhancing the answers to the three primary questions of Blackpanda’s incident response investigation. DarkOwl’s platform also allows for continuous monitoring for any future signs of a data breach.

The team at Blackpanda is hyper-focused on incident response and are the leading digital forensics and cyber crisis management firm in Asia. Positioned throughout the region and incorporating both Western and Asian business disciplines they offer their clients best in class cyber security. Drawing on the team’s military special forces background, Blackpanda maintains both the specialized technical expertise and client-centric cultural understanding necessary to lead our clients through crisis and beyond.

“We are honored to partner with Blackpanda, one of Asia’s top IR and digital forensics teams.  Their reputation is superb, and they bring an elite group of security experts from special forces, intelligence, forensics and law enforcement to the challenges at hand. Adding DarkOwl’s darknet intelligence into the mix of their existing investigative tools is a natural fit” says DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage.

About Blackpanda
Blackpanda is Asia’s premier digital forensics and incident response firm, hyper-focused solely on digital forensics and cyber crisis response. Our team consists of an elite cadre of risk and security experts from international special forces, intelligence, forensics and law enforcement backgrounds. We are highly trained, ready to respond to and help manage crises on short notice, when and wherever needed. To learn more, please visit www.Blackpanda.com
 
About DarkOwl
We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016, and we are the world’s leading provider of DARKINT ™, darknet intelligence and offer the largest commercially available database of darknet content. DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations, law enforcement and government organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

FinClusive is breaking the mold of financial access for millions of businesses and individuals with Compliance as a Service, supported by tools such as darknet data intelligence.

Denver, CO – WEBWIRE – Tuesday, December 8, 2020

DarkOwl and FinClusive announced today a partnership that will enable FinClusive access to DarkOwl’s massive darknet database in support of its Compliance as a Service (CaaS) platform and its mission to expand access to financial services to the underserved.

FinClusive is the only provider that is built on proven systems to create secure, user-friendly financial engagement and is delivering the core elements of a scalable and compliant-centric digital financial services platform. Their goal is to bring secure, compliance-centered banking to the 2.5 to 3.5 billion people and businesses worldwide who are financially excluded or underserved and make compliance simple and access to basic financial services seamless.

Amit Sharma, FinClusive’s CEO states, “As many as 3.5 billion people and millions of organizations worldwide are underserved or excluded from the financial system.  It’s not enough to simply put the tools in place to enable organizations that provide financial services to be the most robust bunker on the planet; that bunker must allow more people and businesses into the system.  Our partnership with Dark Owl will enable greater transparency and security while making financial access easier for many around the world.”

FinClusive’s Compliance as a Service (CaaS) is an automated and full-stack financial crimes compliance (FCC) solution in one workflow designed for traditional banks and modern financial technology companies. Features include:

• Evaluate actual vs perceived compliance risk—of individuals and businesses

• Dynamically screen thousands of data and risk management sources globally

• Comprehensive due diligence—from basic to enhanced, and offline data—fully integrated

DarkOwl CEO, Mark Turnage comments, “FinClusive’s approach to compliance is revolutionary and it provides a single risk and compliance gateway to secure financial services that have been out of reach for so many small businesses, individuals and non-profits. We applaud their mission and recognize their groundbreaking technological expertise and look forward to a very successful partnership”
 

About FinClusive
FinClusive is a hybrid fin-/reg-tech company that provides a full-stack financial crimes compliance (FCC) platform that facilitates inclusion (access to secure accounts and payments) for the world’s financially underserved and excluded.  FinClusive recognizes the growth in alternative financial services and technologies and the opportunity they afford to supporting financial inclusion globally, and we help bridge these growing systems and traditional banking with comprehensive compliance to reinforce financial system integrity and access in tandem. Learn more at www.finclusive.com
 

About DarkOwl
We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016, and we are the world’s leading provider of DARKINT ™, darknet intelligence and offer the largest commercially available database of darknet content. DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations, law enforcement and government organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
Media Contact
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl
[email protected]

Tactical AI is excited for the opportunity to enhance our current data search and monitoring services with expanded darknet data through our partnership with Dark Owl. Tactical AI’s search system provides critical data used for legal disputes, risk management, and due diligence, while our monitoring system provides our clients with prompt alerts necessary to limit the damaging effects of information security breaches.

“Our mission is to provide the most comprehensive set of information available on the surface, deep, and dark webs, and in the timeliest possible manner,” says Wayne McDowell, CEO of Tactical Analysis Intelligence. “The scope of the darknet data provided by Dark Owl and the speed in which it is received allows us to gather complete and accurate threat and business intelligence pictures for our clients and to promote an immediate and quick response.”

Leveraging 30+ years in the cyber security, threat and risk industry, Tactical AI’s proprietary analysis technology uncovers information not available using traditional techniques, allowing businesses to make informed decisions more quickly and solve the toughest and most critical business problems.

DarkOwl CEO Mark Turnage comments: “This is a great fit for our vast darknet database, Tactical AI’s proprietary deep search system and their breach monitoring ability taps directly into DarkOwl’s power. We are thrilled to assist them in protecting their clients IP, PII, financial information and data from exposure.”

Tactical AI’s team consists of legal experts, private investigators, former intelligence officers, and security and risk management specialists. They routinely monitor both public and non-public internet sources to ensure that their clients remain safe from cyberattacks.

About Tactical Analysis Intelligence
Tactical AI is a data search and monitoring company with offices located in Chicago, Illinois and Toronto, Canada. With over 30 years in the cyber intelligence industry, we provide information not available using traditional techniques, allowing businesses to make informed decisions more quickly and solve the toughest and most critical business problems. Tactical AI’s monitoring services have helped protect Intellectual Property, Asset Data, and Financial Information from breach and exposure to competitors. www.tactical-ai.com

About DarkOwl
We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016, we are the world’s leading provider of DARKINT™, darknet intelligence and offer the world’s largest commercially available database of darknet content. DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations, law enforcement and government organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

Media Contact
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

Immediate access to the world’s largest dark web dataset, as well as critical open source and public data seamlessly surfaces pre-incident physical threat indicators to help mitigate potential harm to Fortune 500 executives, employees, customers and assets

Ontic, the protective intelligence software innovator digitally transforming how companies actively identify, investigate, assess, watch and manage physical security threats, today announced a partnership with DarkOwl LLC, the leading provider of darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data. The partnership provides Ontic Fortune 500 clients with the ability to surface actionable insights from dark net data through the Ontic software platform for a more comprehensive view of potential physical threats to their business.

“In today’s world bad actors are posting less threatening information on publicly available websites and more nefarious and alarming information on the dark and deep web,” says Ontic CEO Lukas Quanstrom. “Through our partnership with DarkOwl, Ontic becomes the only protective intelligence platform to unite the largest dataset of dark web data that exists today with that from social media, news sites, public and criminal records, and company-proprietary records. This gives physical security professionals at corporations a proactive and more holistic way to address physical security threats.”

DarkOwl is the world’s leading provider of DARKINT™, darknet intelligence and the world’s largest commercially available database of darknet content. It automatically, continuously, and anonymously collects, indexes and ranks darknet, deep web, and high-risk surface net data. Because its platform collects and stores data in real-time, darknet sites that frequently change location and availability can be queried in a safe and secure manner without having to access the darknet itself.

“Darknet content is often overlooked as it relates to physical security threat management but is key to helping connect the dots on potential threats to businesses,” says Mark Turnage, chief executive officer, DarkOwl. “We’re proud to partner with Ontic and fuel the new technology-driven standard it has created for unifying critical threat data physical security teams need to identify, investigate, assess, watch and act on both known and unknown threats.”

DarkOwl darknet data is currently accessible to clients via Ontic’s platform, where end-users will benefit from support and guidance from the Ontic and DarkOwl teams to ensure successful use of the data.

About DarkOwl

We are darknet experts. DarkOwl was founded in 2016, we are the world’s leading provider of DARKINT ™, darknet intelligence and offer the world’s largest commercially available database of darknet content. DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations, law enforcement and government organizations to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law and mitigate them quickly. We offer a variety of options to access our data, please visit us at www.darkowl.com

About Ontic

Ontic is the first protective intelligence software company to digitally transform how Fortune 500 and emerging enterprises proactively address physical threat management to protect employees, customers and assets. Ontic’s SaaS-based platform collects and connects threat indicators to provide a comprehensive view of potential threats while surfacing critical knowledge so companies can assess and action more to maintain business continuity and reduce financial impact. ForFor more information please visit ontictechnologies.com

Press Contacts

For Ontic:
Zander Wharton
[email protected]
203-733-2815

For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

The OSINT Combine NexusXplore platform will leverage DarkOwl’s vast darknet database

DENVER (October 15, 2020) – OSINT Combine, the leading OSINT training and software provider in Australia and DarkOwl are proud to announce a strategic partnership that will bring OSINT Combine clients the power of DarkOwl’s darknet data to its enduring open-source intelligence capability which supports complex operational requirements through training, software solutions and consulting.

OSINT Combine Founder and CEO, Chris Poulter, says, “The partnership with DarkOwl is of strategic significance. Their company mission to support time-sensitive activities as a leading dark web data provider is synergistic with our organization and allows us to grow our solution offerings in the fight against human trafficking, terrorism; and in support of law enforcement, corporate and personnel protection domains. We’re excited to integrate the quality of their data into our NexusXplore platform”

OSINT Combine has successfully developed OSINT capabilities within strategic organizations, globally, through delivery of advanced OSINT training and software solutions to government organizations including national intelligence agencies, tri-service military, local and federal law enforcement as well as private sector organizations including Fortune 500 and ASX 200 companies

Mark Turnage, DarkOwl CEO comments, “OSINT Combine’s work is outstanding. Their platform and instruction are designed and delivered by experts with years of experience in Special Operations, Military and Law Enforcement. And now, using DarkOwl’s massive database of darknet data, they will be able to train their clients on how to leverage the darknet which can often provide pivotal information in investigations.”

For additional information, please visit www.darkowl.com, and https://www.osintcombine.com/

 

 

About OSINT Combine

OSINT Combine is an Australian veteran owned and operated business who specialize in open source intelligence (OSINT) training and software. Their Advanced Open Source Intelligence Course is a comprehensive training package aimed at researchers, investigators, law enforcement, government, military and decision support personnel. The training focuses on how to use advanced methods and techniques to collect, analyze and produce high quality open source intelligence and support your mission.

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl was founded in 2016 with the mission of collecting the broadest dataset of darknet content available in the cyber-defense industry and making that data both accessible and valuable to its clients. By empowering its customers to have eyes on the darknet, DarkOwl enables cybersecurity organizations and governments to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law, mitigate them quickly, and investigate even the furthest and most obscure reaches of the internet. www.darkowl.com

 

Media Contact

For DarkOwl:

Kim Ketchel

Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

[email protected]

 

DarkOwl will be instrumental in two CyberDefenses cyber intelligence service offerings – Deep Insight and Cyber Theft Locator  

DENVER (October 6 ,2020) – DarkOwl LLC and CyberDefenses have inked a deal that helps CyberDefenses’ customers gain insight beyond general threat landscape intelligence reports to cybercriminal activity on the darknet that is directly related to the customer.

“Dark Owl provides a depth and breadth of darknet data that is unique in the industry,” Armando Ordonez, CyberDefenses CEO says. “Our partnership with Dark Owl is instrumental in helping us deliver the customer-specific intelligence that informs highly sophisticated and effective protection against targeted cybercrime.”

DarkOwl will bring its vast database of darknet data to CyberDefenses, which will be significantly influential in two of the company’s offerings; Deep Insight and Cyber Theft Locator.

With Cyber Theft Locator, Dark Owl data is a key addition to CyberDefenses’ cyber intelligence methods that help identify theft devices on point-of-sale payment terminals.  For example, CyberDefenses combines Dark Owl data with proprietary investigative techniques to find hot spots of credit card theft at fueling stations. These discoveries help provide state regulatory entities and law enforcement with the information needed to find skimmer and shimmer theft devices on fueling pumps remotely. This process is faster than manual detection methods which leads to a larger number of device removals, reduces the volume of theft and the likelihood of repeat targeting, and in some cases, can lead to apprehending the criminals.

For the Deep Insight service, Dark Owl provides data that CyberDefenses uses with pattern matching and other investigative techniques to identify cyberattack targeting that can be difficult to discover across distributed environments and the entire supply chain.  Customers can use the findings to apply highly effective defenses and granular controls to defend against the specific threats focused on them.

Mark Turnage, DarkOwl CEO commented, “CyberDefenses has built an extraordinary technology platform, and combined with their investigative methods they are leaders in protecting consumers.  Our breadth and depth of darknet data is a new and we believe critical link in the chain of the protection they offer, and we are proud to partner with them and contribute to their industry-leading suite of services.”

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About CyberDefenses

CyberDefenses, Inc. is an award-winning Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) that shields businesses and government agencies from cyber threats. On September 11 of 2001, CyberDefenses Founder Randell Casey, a retiring military veteran, was tasked with investigating whether the United States was under cyberattack in addition to physical terrorist attack. In response, Mr. Casey gathered a group of military cybersecurity experts and started CyberDefenses. The company utilizes its highly seasoned and credentialed security personnel and security operations centers to address security needs including cyber intelligence, network and endpoint monitoring and threat detection, incident response, CMMC readiness, security program consulting, policy and plan development, security and risk assessments and pen testing. For more information, please visit www.cyberdefenses.com.

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl was founded in 2016 with the mission of collecting the broadest dataset of darknet content available in the cyber-defense industry and making that data both accessible and valuable to its clients. By empowering its customers to have eyes on the darknet, DarkOwl enables organizations and governments to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law, mitigate them quickly, and investigate even the furthest and most obscure reaches of the internet. www.darkowl.com

Media Contact
For DarkOwl:
Kim Ketchel
Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

While Healthcare Industry’s Overall Cyber Posture Improved, the Accelerated Use of Telehealth During COVID-19 Pandemic Increased Cybersecurity Risk

New York – September 10, 2020 – SecurityScorecard, the global leader in security ratings, and DarkOwl LLC, a leading dark web research company, today jointly released the “Listening to Patient Data Security: Healthcare Industry and Telehealth Cybersecurity Risks Report”. The research found that while COVID-19 has proven the healthcare industry’s overall resilience, it has also increased its cybersecurity risk with new and emerging threats. The rapid adoption and onboarding of telehealth vendors led to a significantly increased digital footprint and attack surface, leaving both provider and patient data at risk.

According to a brief from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, at the height of the pandemic, the number of telehealth primary care visits increased 350-fold from pre-pandemic levels. SecurityScorecard and DarkOwl focused the 2020 healthcare report on reviewing the 148 most-used telehealth vendors according to Becker’s Hospital Review. The report indicates that telehealth providers have experienced a nearly exponential increase in targeted attacks as popularity skyrocketed, including a 30% increase of cybersecurity findings per domain, notably:

–             117% increase in IP reputation security alerts

●        Malware infections — as part of successful phishing attempts and other attack vectors — ultimately cause IP reputation finding issues

–             65% increase in patching cadence findings

●        Patching cadence is the regularity of installing security patches and is often one of the primary security policies that protect data

–             56% increase in endpoint security findings

●        Exploited vulnerabilities in endpoint security enable data theft

–             16% increase in application security findings

●        Patients connect with telehealth providers using web-based applications including structured and unstructured data

–             42% increase in FTP issues

●        FTP is an insecure network protocol that enables information to travel between a client and a server on a network

–             27% increase in RDP issues

●        RDP is a protocol that allows for remote connections, which has seen increased usage since the widespread adoption of remote work

Additionally, DarkOwl’s research showed a noticeable increase in mentions of major healthcare and telehealth companies across the dark web since February 2020. There was evidence of prolific and emerging threat actors selling electronic patient healthcare data, malware toolkits that specifically target telehealth technologies, and strains of ransomware that are uniquely configured to take down healthcare IT infrastructure.

Over the past four years, SecurityScorecard has reported on the cybersecurity struggles the healthcare industry faces. In this year’s report, SecurityScorecard and DarkOwl looked at over one million organizations — over 30,000 in healthcare alone — from September 2019 to April 2020 and analyzed terabytes of information to assess risk across 10 factors.

The healthcare industry, despite new risks from telehealth vendors, slightly improved its security posture compared to 2019. The industry moved to 9th place out of 18 reviewed industries (up from 10th in 2019.) This is heartening, especially as the industry has been overwhelmed by an influx of patients, limited resources, rationing, and other challenges due to COVID-19.

“While telehealth is an integral part of maintaining social distancing and providing patient care, it has also increased healthcare providers’ digital footprint and attack surface, which we see with the increase of findings per telehealth domain, and in factors like endpoint security” said Sam Kassoumeh, COO and co-founder of SecurityScorecard. “It’s an indicator that healthcare organizations should continue to keep a focus on cyber resilience.”

Mark Turnage, CEO of DarkOwl adds, “Since the onset of the pandemic, cybercriminals are entering the healthcare data selling space which ultimately leads to new risks facing healthcare organizations and their IT supply stream. Threat protection teams must remain one step ahead of potential attackers, especially during this critical time.”

Methodology and more details can be found in the full report, here: https://www.darkowl.com/2020-healthcare-cyber-report

About SecurityScorecard

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, board reporting, due diligence, and cyber insurance underwriting. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors. Every company has the universal right to their trusted and transparent Instant SecurityScorecard rating. For more information, visit securityscorecard.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.

About DarkOwl:

DarkOwl was founded in 2016 with the mission of collecting the broadest dataset of darknet content available in the cyber-defense industry and making that data both accessible and valuable to its clients. By empowering its customers to have eyes on the darknet, DarkOwl enables organizations and governments to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law, mitigate them quickly, and investigate even the furthest and most obscure reaches of the internet. www.darkowl.com

Media Contact:

SecurityScorecard

Fehmida Bholat

310-880-0750

[email protected]

DarkOwl:

Kim Ketchel

[email protected]

A new partnership combines Terbium Labs’ Digital Fingerprinting Technology with DarkOwl’s content to create private access to compare unlimited records against DarkOwl’s entire darknet index.

DENVER (August 6, 2020) – DarkOwl LLC and Terbium Labs are proud to announce a strategic partnership, the combination delivers a uniquely comprehensive and granular digital risk protection for Terbium clients.

Combining the breadth and depth of DarkOwl’s darknet content with Terbium Labs’ Digital Risk Protection Solution, Matchlight, clients will have access to continuous, real-time monitoring and alerting and exact data matching against the world’s largest darknet database — minimizing false positives, decreasing breach detection time, while ensuring a secure and simple process of placing unlimited data types under monitoring.

“With Matchlight’s Digital Fingerprinting technology, clients can privately place hundreds of thousands or even millions of branded and unbranded company records and keywords under monitoring. With its precise data matching, Matchlight continuously monitors and alerts clients when their data is found online, even if it appears on a page without mention of your company brand name or any other public keywords. For the first time, clients can now run these large scale comparisons against DarkOwl’s entire crawl and receive real-time alerting and remediation support within the Matchlight platform.” —Tyler Carbone, Chief Strategy Officer, Terbium Labs

The partnership pairs DarkOwl’s extensive darknet data with Matchlight’s Digital Fingerprinting technology, enabling clients to privately and precisely monitor the full spectrum of their organization’s digital footprint of branded and unbranded data, from customer and employee PII, to mentions of their company and brand, to intellectual property, and beyond.

Mark Turnage, DarkOwl CEO offers this perspective, “We are delighted to partner with Terbium on this solution.  This combination of two world-class technology platforms allows Terbium’s clients confidential and private monitoring of DarkOwl’s data via their Matchlight program, and access to one of the world’s largest and broadest darknet datasets.  And as we continue to improve the quality and quantity of our data collection efforts across multiple darknets Terbium’s customers will have immediate access to these improvements and enhancements.”

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About Terbium Labs

Matchlight, the company’s comprehensive digital risk protection (DRP) platform features continuous digital asset monitoring, robust analytics, and actionable intelligence, to quickly identify and minimize the impact of exposed data across the Internet – whether it’s the open, deep, or dark web. Featuring its patented digital fingerprinting technology that ensures private data stays private, unique fusion of data science and machine learning, and dedicated analysts, Terbium Labs provides pinpoint accuracy for early detection and remediation of data exposure, theft, or misuse across the digital landscape. Learn more about Terbium Labs’ unique approach to DRP by visiting terbiumlabs.com or on Twitter @TerbiumLabs.

About DarkOwl

DarkOwl was founded in 2016 with the mission of collecting the broadest dataset of darknet content available in the cyber-defense industry and making that data both accessible and valuable to its clients. By empowering its customers to have eyes on the darknet, DarkOwl enables organizations and governments to fully understand their security posture, detect potential breaches and violations of the law, mitigate them quickly, and investigate even the furthest and most obscure reaches of the internet. www.darkowl.com

Media Contact

For DarkOwl:

Kim Ketchel, Director of Marketing, DarkOwl

For Terbium Labs:

Hilary Killian, Marketing Director, Terbium Labs

[email protected]