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Unit 221B raises $5M to help track and disrupt today’s top hacking groups
The seed funding raise will help Unit 221B expand its threat intelligence platform, which tracks the English-speaking youth hacking phenomenon.
By tearing through some of the biggest companies, tech giants, and governments, these young and highly financially motivated hackers have destroyed networks and extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from wealthy corporate victims. Unit 221B has helped break the law enforcement deadlock in multiple investigations, the company’s top brass tells TechCrunch, by securing key arrests of high-profile hackers associated with groups like Scattered Spider and the nebulous wider cybercrime community known as The Com. The $5 million in seed funding will be used to expand and improve its eWitness threat intelligence platform, with the aim of helping law enforcement and government investigators track and arrest malicious hackers faster.
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