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GroupSense, a leading provider of cyber intelligence services, announced their acquisition of European cyber research and development firm, BitCrime Ltd. With this acquisition, GroupSense extends its footprint into the EU. This is instrumental in supporting GroupSense’s international clients and bolstering GroupSense’s TraceLight intelligence platform capabilities.
BitCrime’s extensive research capabilities, technology, and database of over 7.2 billion compromised credentials will accelerate innovation, research, and new services offered by GroupSense. Fueled by the BitCrime capabilities, GroupSense recently launched BreachRecon, a service that alerts citizens and organizations when their emails, passwords, and other personally identifiable information are exposed online via data breaches. Further, BitCrime’s dark net platform and attribution technology will be rolled into the GroupSense technology portfolio.
“Nikolay and his team have a passion for the cyber reconnaissance mission and trade craft”, said Kurtis Minder, CEO of GroupSense. “Together we will accelerate our software-driven threat intelligence capabilities and innovate to help our clients proactively address threats.”
Evidence of the expanded research capabilities can already be seen in the breakthrough report on potential wide-scale interference in US policy and elections which can be found at breachrecon.com/sharksreport.
BitCrime’s president, Nikolay Danev, has joined GroupSense as vice president, EMEA. He is responsible for leading the mission in the EU as well as commanding a team of seasoned security researchers.
“We are pleased to be joining forces with GroupSense to bring our expertise to a broader market and to work together to protect clients from online threats”, said Nikolay Danev, vice president, EMEA for GroupSense.
With the acquisition of BitCrime, GroupSense exponentially increases capabilities in intelligence collection, breach notification, and dark net research while simultaneously building an EMEA footprint.
About GroupSense
GroupSense is a leading provider of cyber intelligence services. GroupSense is not a feed, or a search engine for the dark web. GroupSense is people, empowered by proprietary technology, helping information security and intel teams realize value. GroupSense is trusted by governments worldwide to assist in cyber intel program development, election monitoring, and anti-fraud and risk measures. GroupSense tracks known and suspected threat actor and groups, publishing research. Learn more at groupsense.io.
About BitCrime
BitCrime is an elite Eastern European cyber security lab that collects and analyzes big data from the cyber underground and open sources, thus allowing for cross checking. BitCrime’s data collection uses unique proprietary techniques, many automated, which allows BitCrime to correlate and produce a clear global image of anything we investigate. BitCrime’s process is fed into an integrated platform, where trends are easily identified, thus providing data for both reactive and preemptive security models.
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