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      How the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Drove the Germany-Singapore Team to Success at NATO Locked Shields 2025
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    • CrowdStrike Services Observes SCATTERED SPIDER Escalate Attacks Across Industries
      CrowdStrike Services Observes SCATTERED SPIDER Escalate Attacks Across Industries
      Jul 02, 2025
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      Prescription for Protection: Healthcare Industry Observations from CrowdStrike Investigations
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      How CrowdStrike Traces Attack Paths to Sensitive Data in the Cloud
      How CrowdStrike Traces Attack Paths to Sensitive Data in the Cloud
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      CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the 2025 IDC MarketScape for CNAPP
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      Stopping Cloud Breaches at Machine Speed: How CrowdStrike Uses Agentic AI to Power Cloud Detection and Response
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      CrowdStrike Named a Frost Radar™ Leader in Cloud and Application Runtime Security
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      CrowdStrike Services Observes SCATTERED SPIDER Escalate Attacks Across Industries
      07/02/25
      CrowdStrike Collaborates with U.S. Department of Justice on DanaBot Takedown
      CrowdStrike Collaborates with U.S. Department of Justice on DanaBot Takedown
      05/22/25
      CrowdStrike 2025 Latin America Threat Landscape Report: A Deep Dive into an Evolving Region
      CrowdStrike 2025 Latin America Threat Landscape Report: A Deep Dive into an Evolving Region
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      CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report: Beware the Enterprising Adversary
      02/27/25
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      CrowdStrike Falcon Wins AV-Comparatives Awards for EDR Detection and Mac Security
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      CrowdStrike Researchers Investigate the Threat of Patchless AMSI Bypass Attacks
      CrowdStrike Researchers Investigate the Threat of Patchless AMSI Bypass Attacks
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      CrowdStrike Named a Customers’ Choice in 2025 Gartner® Voice of the Customer for Endpoint Protection Platforms Report
      05/27/25
      CrowdStrike Falcon for Mobile Gains Android Enterprise and Zero Trust Integrations
      CrowdStrike Falcon for Mobile Gains Android Enterprise and Zero Trust Integrations
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      CrowdStrike Researchers Develop Custom XGBoost Objective to Improve ML Model Release Stability
      03/20/25
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      Byte Back: Next-Generation Malware Classification Using Binary Transformers
      03/06/25
      Leveraging CrowdStrike Falcon Against Attacks Targeting Okta Environments
      Leveraging CrowdStrike Falcon Against Attacks Targeting Okta Environments
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      Tech Analysis: Channel File May Contain Null Bytes
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      How the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Drove the Germany-Singapore Team to Success at NATO Locked Shields 2025
      How the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform Drove the Germany-Singapore Team to Success at NATO Locked Shields 2025
      07/03/25
      CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
      CrowdStrike and Microsoft Unite to Harmonize Cyber Threat Attribution
      06/02/25
      Announcing the CrowdStrike 2025 Global CrowdTour: Bringing the Power of the Crowd to a City Near You
      Announcing the CrowdStrike 2025 Global CrowdTour: Bringing the Power of the Crowd to a City Near You
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      CrowdStrike’s Commitment to Merit and Mission
      CrowdStrike’s Commitment to Merit and Mission
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      Prescription for Protection: Healthcare Industry Observations from CrowdStrike Investigations
      Prescription for Protection: Healthcare Industry Observations from CrowdStrike Investigations
      07/01/25
      Follow the Adversary: The Top 3 Red Team Exploitation Paths from 2024
      Follow the Adversary: The Top 3 Red Team Exploitation Paths from 2024
      03/19/25
      Redefining Incident Response in the Modern Era
      Redefining Incident Response in the Modern Era
      03/12/25
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      CrowdStrike Named a Leader with “Bold Vision” in 2024 Forrester Wave for Cybersecurity Incident Response Services
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      CrowdStrike Named a Customers’ Choice in 2025 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for User Authentication Report
      06/04/25
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      Falcon Identity Protection Innovations Stop Insider Risk, Secure Non-Human Identities, and Lock Down Privileged Access
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      CrowdStrike Leads in GigaOm Radar for Identity Threat Detection and Response
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      How Falcon Next-Gen SIEM Protects Enterprises from VMware vCenter Attacks
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      04/28/25
      Build Smarter Threat Detection with Next-Gen SIEM
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      NHS Matures Healthcare Cybersecurity with NCSC’s CAF Assurance Model
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      Zero Trust Strengthens Data Protection to Achieve National Cyber Strategy Goals
      01/15/25
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      CrowdStrike Statement on Bloomberg’s October 25, 2024 Story
      10/25/24
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      06/25/25
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      June 2025 Patch Tuesday: One Zero-Day and Nine Critical Vulnerabilities Among 66 CVEs
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      CrowdStrike Elevates XIoT Security with AI-Powered Insights
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      May 2025 Patch Tuesday: Five Zero-Days and Five Critical Vulnerabilities Among 72 CVEs
      05/14/25
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      SMB Security Survey Reveals High Awareness, Lagging Protection
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      One Year of Falcon Go: Transforming Cybersecurity for Small Businesses
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      06/11/25
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      CrowdStrike Partners with Google Cloud to Advance AI-Native Integration with MCP
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      Q&A: How Mastronardi Produce Secures Innovation with CrowdStrike
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      12/11/24
      Five Reasons Why Legacy Data Loss Prevention Tools Fail to Deliver
      Five Reasons Why Legacy Data Loss Prevention Tools Fail to Deliver
      10/23/23
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Critical Hit: How DoppelPaymer Hunts and Kills Windows Processes

Critical Hit: How DoppelPaymer Hunts and Kills Windows Processes

December 07, 2021

Shaun Hurley Threat Hunting & Intel

In a July 2019 blog post about DoppelPaymer, Crowdstrike Intelligence reported that ProcessHacker was being hijacked to kill a list of targeted processes and gain access, delivering a “critical hit.” […]

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