X Inc., the company previously known as Twitter, announced today that it has signed a deal with Visa Inc. to become a founding partner for X Money Account, a new service that will provide a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments. X Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino said in a tweet that the new service, set to ...

Shares in F5 Inc. leaped more than 12% in late trading today after the application security firm reported strong earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2025 first quarter. For the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, F5 reported adjusted earnings per share of $3.84, up from $3.43 in the same quarter of the previous year, on revenue ...

A new report out today from anti-ransomware and cyber resilience platform provider Halcyon Tech Inc. details the increasingly sophisticated techniques used by the Arcus Media ransomware group. Not particularly well-known, Arcus Media first emerged in June and has been linked to ransomware attacks on companies, including DatAnalitica. The ransomware group uses the popular double extortion model ...

Mobile access platform startup Hypori Inc. announced today that it has raised $12 million in additional funding to accelerate the adoption of zero-trust, bring-your-own-device programs through its secure mobile access platform technology. Founded in 2021, Hypori offers a mobile access platform that enables secure virtual access to enterprise applications and data from any mobile device ...

Biometric identity and authentication solutions provider authID Inc. today announced the release of PrivacyKey, a new solution that protects user biometric data while also avoiding compliance issues and risks related to biometric information storage. The system works starting with authID’s Proof solution for onboarding users, capturing images of physical identification documents and faces to validate for liveliness and ...

On a day that American equities markets took a hammering after investors started to pay attention to its latest artificial intelligence models, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek experienced “large-scale malicious attacks” on its services, forcing the company to limit signups temporarily. The company has not disclosed the exact form of the attack. The attacks did not ...

A new report out today from mobile security platform provider Zimperium Inc. is warning of a sophisticated new phishing campaign targeting mobile devices with malicious PDF files. The PDFs used in the campaign are disguised as legitimate communications from the U.S. Postal Service and aim to exploit user trust in the PDF format to steal credentials and ...

The Trump administration is reportedly working on a plan to save the U.S. operations of TikTok that involves Oracle Corp. and group investors acquiring the popular short-form video application. According to NPR, referencing “two people with direct knowledge of the talks,” the potential deal could even go as far as Oracle acquiring a majority stake ...

A new report out today from cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc. is drawing attention to the evolving tactics of two prominent ransomware-as-a-service operations that have gained notoriety for targeting high-value sectors, including pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and government entities. Ransomware-as-a-service groups operate by providing ready-made ransomware tools and platforms to affiliates or clients, who then undertake ransomware attacks ...

Citrix Systems Inc., a business unit of Cloud Software Group Inc., today announced that it had acquired Unicon GmnH, a thin client provider, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 1993 and based in Karlsruhe, Germany, Unicon specializes in hybrid client software, offering services including security endpoint operating system eLux and enterprise platform Scout. The company’s eLux ...