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NEW TECH: CyCognito employs offensive bot network to put companies a step a head of attackers

The Last Watchdog

Threat actors simply seek out the endless fresh attack vectors arising as an unintended consequence of digital transformation. The company was launched in Tel Aviv in 2017 by a couple of former Israeli military cyber ops attack specialists, Rob Gurzeev and Dima Potekhin. I first wrote about criminal botnets at USA TODAY in 2004.