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Sygnia, the foremost cyber readiness and response team, today announced it has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Retainer Services (DFIR). This marks Sygnia’s fourth consecutive time of recognition in the report.

Sygnia, the foremost global cyber readiness and response team, today reveals the findings of their investigation into a prolonged espionage campaign by a China-nexus threat actor, targeting critical infrastructure. Named ‘Fire Ant’ by Sygnia, the adversary is actively leveraging advanced methods to gain access to virtualization and networking environments by creating multi-layer attack kill chains to infiltrate restricted and segmented network assets that were considered to be within isolated environments.

Sygnia, the foremost global cyber readiness and response team, announced the addition of Elissa Doroff as Director of Cyber Insurance and Legal Partnerships. Doroff joins with two decades of experience, holding leadership positions at insurance and brokerage firms, including Mosaic Insurance, Lockton, NFP, AXA XL, Marsh and AIG.

Sygnia, the foremost global cyber readiness and response team, revealed today a new China nexus threat actor, which the company has named Weaver Ant. To infiltrate the telecom company and gain access to sensitive data, Weaver Ant compromised Zyxel CPE home routers as an entry point into the victim’s network. The APT also utilized a new web shell, dubbed “INMemory” to enable in-memory execution of malicious modules while evading detection.

Sygnia, the foremost global cyber readiness and response team, announced today the appointment of Avi Golan as its new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Golan brings over 30 years of leadership experience across the technology vertical and previously held key roles at Google, Intuit, SoftBank Vision Fund, Air New Zealand and Oosto.

Sygnia is excited to announce its partnership with Wiz, integrating Wiz Defend into Sygnia’s managed detection and response (MDR) services to enhance cloud threat detection capabilities for joint customers. This collaboration combines the capabilities of Wiz Defend Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) alongside Sygnia’s incident response (IR)-driven approach, providing enterprise-wide visibility across IT and OT networks, both cloud-based and on-premise, and delivering 24/7 monitoring, threat hunting, and real-time response from battle tested IR experts. With Wiz Defend, Sygnia empowers organizations to neutralize cloud-based attacks, eliminate alert fatigue, and optimize security operations across the enterprise.

Sygnia, the foremost global cyber readiness and response team, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA aimed at revolutionizing cybersecurity in the energy and industrial sectors with AI-powered edge solutions. The initiative combines Sygnia’s Pathfinder sensors and Velocity XDR platform with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and the NVIDIA Morpheus cybersecurity AI framework to improve data collection and threat detection and response. This hardware and software solution aims to secure industrial and critical infrastructure with AI-powered security at the edge.

Sygnia, the leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, today announced that it has expanded its business operations in Latin America and Australia. Sygnia established a new office in Sydney as well as new executive leadership in both Mexico City and Sydney to deepen its incident response and cyber security consulting services.

Sygnia, a leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, today released a new report uncovering that attacks led by the Night Sky and Cheerscrypt ransomware groups originated from the same threat actor, dubbed ‘Emperor Dragonfly’ by the company. This significant discovery reaffirms newer methodologies being implemented by industry threat actors to appear as several, smaller groups in order to avoid discovery.

Sygnia, the foremost global cyber readiness and response team, today announced its participation in a consortium led by EPRI to improve cybersecurity of the U.S. energy sector. EPRI recently secured $22.2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for five security projects all designed to increase the cyber-readiness of the U.S. power grid, part of a larger DOE initiative consisting of $45 million in funding for 16 projects across six states to protect the nation’s energy sector. Sygnia is participating alongside NVIDIA, Waterfall Security Solutions, Clemson University, and three leading U.S.-based electric utilities – Ameren, Consolidated Edison Company, and Southern Company in a project to research and develop advanced artificial intelligence and data processing capabilities to detect and respond to cyber security incidents in control system networks at the edge.

Sygnia, a leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, today announced the appointment of Rafael Maman as Vice President of Operational Technology (OT) Security. Rafael joins Sygnia with over 25 years of practical and management experience in OT Security, data analytics, secure digital supply chain management and strategic consulting. His career to-date has transcended several regions, working in EMEA, North America, and Singapore.

Sygnia, a leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, announced today that Amir Becker is joining the team as its new Vice President of Incident Response.

Sygnia, a leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, announces today that it will hold a webinar, titled “Incident Response in 2022: Can you Keep Up?” on Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 5:00 p.m. ET.

Sygnia, a leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, announced today that it has released its comprehensive report uncovering an organized financial-theft operation it has termed “Elephant Beetle.”

Sygnia, a leading cyber security consulting and incident response company that provides support to organizations worldwide, today announced it has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in 2021 Gartner Market Guide for Digital Forensics and Incident Response Services.

Sygnia, a leading incident response and cyber security consulting company that protects organizations worldwide, today announced it will open its first European office in London, led by managing director of Northern Europe, Azeem Aleem. This announcement follows a two-year growth period, with Sygnia adding hundreds of new clients. Sygnia’s new space is in Cavendish Square, London.