Fraud Detection Firm Spec Raises $15 Million
Fraud detection and defense startup Spec this week announced that it has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total…
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Iranian Hackers Lurked for 8 Months in Government Network
Iran-linked hacking group Crambus spent eight months inside a compromised network of a Middle Eastern government, Broadcom’s Symantec cybersecurity unit reports. Symantec uses the Crambus…
Harmonic Lands $7M Funding to Secure Generative AI Deployments
A British startup called Harmonic Security has attracted $7 million in seed-stage investment to build technology to help secure generative AI deployments in the enterprise.…
FBI: Thousands of Remote IT Workers Sent Wages to North Korea to Help Fund Weapons Program
Thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies have for years secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use…
Operations of Healthcare Solutions Giant Henry Schein Disrupted by Cyberattack
Healthcare solutions giant Henry Schein recently disclosed a cybersecurity incident that disrupted some of its business operations and may have resulted in a data breach.…
CipherStash Raises $3 Million for Encryption-in-Use Technology
Australian cybersecurity startup CipherStash has raised $3 million in a seed funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $6 million. The…
US Government Releases Anti-Phishing Guidance
The US cybersecurity agency CISA along with the NSA, FBI, and MS-ISAC have released a joint guide detailing commonly used phishing techniques and providing recommendations…
Google Play Protect Gets Real-Time Code Scanning
Google on Wednesday announced improved protections against malware for all Android devices with Google Play Services, in the form of real-time scanning at code level…
Number of Cisco Devices Hacked via Unpatched Vulnerability Increases to 40,000
The number of Cisco devices hacked through the exploitation of an unpatched IOS XE vulnerability has reached approximately 40,000, according to multiple cybersecurity firms. The…
North Korean Hackers Exploiting Recent TeamCity Vulnerability
Multiple North Korean threat actors have been observed exploiting a recent vulnerability in JetBrains’ TeamCity continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) server, Microsoft warns. Tracked…
Finland Charges Psychotherapy Hacker With Extortion
Finland on Wednesday charged a hacker, accused of the theft of tens of thousands of records from psychotherapy patients, with over 21,000 counts of extortion,…
Three Months After Patch, Gov-backed Actors Exploiting WinRAR Flaw
Malware hunters in Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) say government-backed hacking groups from different countries are feasting on a well-documented security flaw in the popular…