A new report released today by Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group details how advanced persistence threat groups and coordinated information operations actors from countries such as China, Iran, Russia and North Korea are using generative artificial intelligence in their campaigns — but despite some headlines to the contrary, it’s not quite as bad as it could ...

Israeli cybersecurity firm CYE Ltd. announced today that it has acquired cloud security and infrastructure technology from adaptive cloud infrastructure security solutions startup Solvo for an undisclosed price. The deal sees CYE acquire Solvo’s technology for cloud security posture management and cloud infrastructure entitlement management. The technology will complement CYE’s Hyber platform by providing deep visibility into the ...

Unstructured-data management firm Komprise Inc. today announced new data detection and mitigation capabilities to help organizations prevent the leaking of personally identifiable information and other sensitive data to artificial intelligence and to reduce the risk of data breaches. With the announcement, the Komprise Smart Data Workflow Manager now includes detection for PII, as well as ...

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 ...