Constella Partners with Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) in First Annual Darkwebathon
The Anti-Human Trafficking Intelligence Initiative (ATII) will host their first annual Darkwebathon from December 6-10, a 5-day virtual hackathon event with the goal of investigating data from the Darkweb and uncovering actionable intelligence that can be used to effectively handle real-world cases involving crimes on the Darkweb. This program will bring industry data experts together to equip law enforcement and federal officials with fact-based content to address the highly challenging and dynamic nature of cybercrimes in human trafficking, modern slavery, and child sex abuse material.
The Darkwebathon will utilize ATII’s licensed dark web platform, Hades, by having over 300 registered event participants competing to identify and profile potential traffickers. “In 2021, ATII has had tremendous success in mapping out organized criminal networks on the darkweb in addition to attributing cryptocurrency data in blockchain forensics applications and allowing cryptocurrency companies to map out their exposure to these darkweb entities.” said Larry Cameron, CISO of ATII. “We have uncovered and triaged a significant amount of data within the application and are now for a limited time allowing the public to assist with the investigations.” Outside of the event, ATII uses Hades in a much larger capacity as a way to detect child exploitation, CSAM, drugs, weapons, fraud, mixers/washers, money laundering or other illicit activity – in addition to human trafficking.
“This hackathon is critical in helping law enforcement agencies navigate the Darkweb for cybercrime,” said Aaron Kahler, Founder & CEO of ATII. “Our event allows participants to identify and profile potential traffickers, providing law enforcement agencies with real and actionable intelligence.
Those participating are from crypto exchanges, NGOs, BitATM, law enforcement, and members of academia. In addition to hundreds of participants, there are 14 sponsorship partners, many of which are industry leaders such as Constella Intelligence, a global leader in Digital Risk Protection, safeguarding 30M+ global users at some of the world’s largest organizations.
“We are proud to be an inaugural sponsor of the Darkwebathon,” said Constella Intelligence CEO, Kailash Ambwani. “This program provides Constella the opportunity to work with industry leaders and law enforcement, creating a united front in the fight against human trafficking issues on the dark web.”
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Digital Exposure Report Finds Widespread Cyber Vulnerabilities for Top 20 Fortune Global 500 Financial Services Companies
LOS ALTOS, Calif., Nov. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Constella Intelligence (“Constella”), a leader in Digital Risk Protection and Identity Threat Intelligence, released their Financial Services Sector Exposure Report: 2018-2021 Findings and Trends. This report comes on the heels of Constella’s 2021 Identity Breach Report, and includes new and additional findings pertaining to exposures, breaches, and leakages within the financial services (Finserv) sector, specifically focusing on employees and executives from the top 20 Finserv companies on the Fortune Global 500 list.
This industry-specific report examines data from January 2018 through September 2021. By analyzing identity records from data breaches and leakages found in open sources, and on the surface, deep, and dark web, Constella Intelligence’s threat intelligence team identified 6,472 breaches or leakages and 3,367,059 exposed records related to employee corporate credentials from the companies analyzed. The proliferation and circulation of this sensitive employee data enables threat actors with the necessary resources to execute a wide range of cyberattacks, including ransomware, impersonation, phishing, account takeover, and several others.
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“This report should be a wake-up call for every bank, insurance company, stock brokerage, credit card company, and financial institution that they are attractive and viable targets for cyber threat actors,” said Constella Intelligence CEO, Kailash Ambwani. “Companies and individuals must take new precautions to protect themselves from threats with high potential to target employees as a vector to inflict reputational and financial harm.”
Financial institutions are home to an individual’s most sensitive and personally identifiable information, and this report uncovers the widespread prevalence of breaches in the Finserv sector, detailing the serious damage than can be inflicted on customers, employees, executives, and brands.
Key Findings:
- Constella identified over 3.3M exposed records from nearly 6.5K breaches and leakages between 2018 and 2021 from top 20 Global Fortune 500 Finserv companies analyzed.
- Two-thirds of breaches and leakages in the Finserv sector since 2018 include PII, with the most common attributes being email (100%) and password (72%).
- Finserv sector employees are incurring serious risk by using corporate accounts to register on entertainment, news, retail, gaming, and other technology and services sites.
- 70% of C-suite executives profiled from Fortune Global 500 Finserv companies have had their corporate credentials exposed in a breach or leakage since 2018. Of those executives exposed, 98% have been exposed in breaches that include PII, and over 40% had their passwords exposed.
“Left unchecked, this exposed data spells serious digital risk for financial services companies of all sizes,” said Constella’s VP of Threat Intelligence, Sean Tierney, who has worked in various cyber threat roles for companies such as Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan Chase, and UBS. “It may seem that major institutions are too large to be seriously affected by cyber threats, but that is far from the case.”
Constella monitors social media and the surface, deep, and dark web for identity-related breaches and verifies the authenticity of those data sets. Click here to download the report.
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