How startup Darktrace uses AI to hook cybercriminals

Big names like Softbank and KKR back the $825m startup that protects networks against increasingly sophisticated hackers. Here's why even a coffee machine can be a point of vulnerability.
April 27, 2018

It sounds like the stuff of fiction: shady, unseen cybercriminals target organisations using points of vulnerability so bizarre and mundane it's almost impossible to imagine them as a risk: coffee machines, refrigerators ... even, in one case, a fish tank.

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