Security researchers at Cybernews have detailed the discovery of 16 billion login credentials found online, but despite suggestions from some media outlets and commentators that it represents one of the largest data breaches in history, the cache is not the result of a single incident. Instead, it’s a compilation of data from about 30 different ...

Switzerland-based multinational investment bank UBS Group AG has confirmed that employee data was stolen and published online following a successful ransomware-style attack on one of its third-party suppliers. The news of the breach was first reported Tuesday by Swiss media outlet Le Temps, which said that data relating to about 130,000 UBS employees had been ...

Cybersecurity company S.C. Bitdefender SRL today announced that it has agreed to acquire Mesh Security Ltd., a provider of advanced email security solutions, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Mesh Security specializes in advanced email protection solutions built specifically for managed dervice providers. The company’s platform offers flexible deployment options, including Mesh Gateway for MX-record filtering, ...

Microsoft Corp. is reportedly planning to lay off several thousand employees next month, in what will be the latest round of job cuts in tech amid changing markets and the rise of artificial intelligence. Bloomberg, referencing people familiar with the matter, said today that the cuts are currently planned to be timed after the end ...

A new report out today from cybersecurity company INKY Technology Corp. is sounding the alarm over a new wave of phishing threats that use QR codes in increasingly dangerous and deceptive ways, including leveraging embedded JavaScript payloads that execute instantly upon scanning, with no link clicks required. QR code-based phishing, or “quishing,” is not new. INKY itself ...

Software-as-a-service website building platform company Wix.com Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Base44 Inc. for about $80 million plus additional earn-out payments through 2029. Founded only in January, the startup offers an artificial intelligence-powered platform to create custom software solutions and applications using natural language. Its AI-powered no-code platform allows anyone to build fully functional, production-ready ...

Digital analytics platform company Mixpanel Inc. today announced the expansion of its digital analytics platform to give teams, from startups to enterprises, a complete platform for confident, data-driven decision-making. The expansion sees the introduction of new capabilities across session replay, experimentation, metric trees, artificial intelligence automation and warehouse integrations that focus on allowing teams to ...

Managed information technology service provider Neovera LLC announced today that it has acquired adversarial fraud testing company Greenway Solutions for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2004, Greenway Solutions is a strategic advisory firm that specializes in adversarial fraud testing for financial institutions and other high-risk sectors. The company claims to have pioneered the use of live, real-world ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a range of enhancements at its annual re:Inforce 2025 conference that are aimed at simplifying cloud security at enterprise scale. AWS Chief Information Security Officer Amy Herzog explained at the event that the company is focusing on simplifying security at large scale while also highlighting how AWS is helping ...

A new report out today from application security posture management company Apiiro Ltd. reveals a growing divergence in how industries adopt and secure generative artificial intelligence in software development, with retail organizations moving fast into production and financial institutions taking a slower, risk-heavy approach. Apiiro analyzed more than 100,000 enterprise code repositories using its Deep Code ...