Ghost Security News Today

A nice complement to our earlier interview with GhostSec and Ghost Security Group. Now the Jester's thrown himself into the middle of everything as well, blaming Anons for fighting ISIS while at the same time trying to take credit for Anon victories in the social media wars. The fallout from Ghostsec's schism is being used…

API security company Wib has announced launching its platform and raising $16 million to enhance its product and for international growth.

Pro-Palestinian hacktivist group GhostSec claims to have compromised 55 Berghof programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used by Israeli organizations.

Cybersecurity vendor ThreatX has raised $30M in a funding round to further develop its software and services that defend against API and web app attacks.

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Ghost Security, newly emerged from stealth with $15M in venture funding, aims to protect apps and APIs from attacks using a 'data science'-based approach.

Besides state-sponsored hackers targeting Ukrainian military with DDoS, malware, phishing attacks, cybercriminal groups have also begun to take sides.

>> theyre murdering people, persecuting them for religious beliefs. just appalling. something has to be done and they have to be stopped. >> reporter: ghost security members say theyre a global mix of ex-military and i.t. specialists. so what makes them different from anonymous? they share their intel with the u.s. government. they funnel potential threats and information on isis operatives through one man. intelligence adviser michael smith, who then passes the info on to u.s. law enforcement o...

Communications since the "charlie hebdo" attack earlier this year. >> they are murdering people, persecuting for religious believes. just appalling. something has to be done. they have to be slowed down and. stopped. >> ghost securitys members say they are a global mix of ex-military, ex-counterintelligence and i.t. specialists. what makes them different from anonymous? they share intel with the u.s. government. they funnel potential threats and information on isis operatives through one man, in...

Information that was collected by ghost security. more people were apprehended than at this it point are known to be involved with the plot in paris. a lot of life conceivably could have been greater than what just occurred in paris. >> even though ghost security says they use hacking skills for good, it may still be operating outside the bounds of the law. >> it falls into a gray area. is hacking ul legal, absolutely. stopping isis and propaganda would that be considered illegal, it falls sb a ...