The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with other agencies, has disrupted a botnet that consisted of more than 200,000 consumer devices worldwide. Dubbed “Flax Typhoon,” the botnet, linked to allegedly Chinese state-sponsored hackers, infected numerous types of consumer devices, including small-office/home-office routers, internet protocol cameras, digital video recorders and network-attached storage devices. The ...

Infrastructure-as-code provider Pulumi Corp. today announced two security products that expand its platform to automate, secure and manage cloud infrastructure everywhere. Announced at the company’s fourth annual PulumiUp conference, the first new security product,  Pulumi ESC — ESC stands for environments, secrets and configuration — offers automated cloud security with centralized secrets management that appeals to engineers. ...

Google Cloud today announced several new security features and an updated framework aimed at enhancing threat detection, identification and response, along with assisting companies in sharing threat intelligence and defending their environments. Leading the list, Google Cloud has expanded its security capabilities by making Mandiant Managed Defense for Google Security Operations generally available for U.S.-based ...

Managed cybersecurity company LevelBlue Inc. today announced the availability of LevelBlue Managed Threat Detection and Response for Government, a new service designed to protect highly sensitive data and data that is subject to government regulations and requirements. The new service is designed for U.S. federal, state and local governments or companies doing business with government ...

A new report out today from Imperva Inc., a Thales company, is warning that vulnerable application programming interface and bot attacks are costing businesses up to $186 billion annually as incidents have risen sharply in recent years. The “Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks” report, based on the analysis of more than 161,000 unique ...

BlackRock Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are part of a new group that plans to invest up to $100 billion to build data centers and energy projects to support the rapid development of artificial intelligence. The investments will be made under the newly launched Global AI Infrastructure Investment Partnership, a partnership that includes Global Infrastructure Partners ...

Identity platform startup Stytch Inc. today unveiled advanced capabilities for its Device Fingerprinting technology that allows developers to integrate fraud prevention into their applications. Stytch Device Fingerprinting now includes supervised machine learning to detect and classify new devices to provide protection against zero-day threats, those too new to have been patched yet. The addition combines ...

Sextortion scams, where a malicious actor attempts to extort money by threatening to publish stolen intimate photographs or video, are one of the most insidious forms of online scams. But in a disturbing twist, a new report from Cofense Inc. today finds, those scammers are now using images from Google Street View as their latest ...

Cybersecurity company RunSafe Security Inc. announced today that it has raised $12 million in new funding to accelerate product development and expansion to Europe, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific region. Founded in 2015, RunSafe specializes in protecting embedded systems and software through a cyber-hardening process that disrupts attacks by reducing vulnerabilities and eliminating ...

Unified endpoint management and information technology management software company NinjaOne LLC today announced several updates to support managed service providers, including free warranty tracking, a free documentation tool and new white-glove professional services to help large MSPs migrate technology stacks. NinjaOne’s new Warranty Tracking feature, available now in beta test mode, automates the management of device ...