Yelp Inc. announced today that it will buy Hatch, an artificial intelligence-powered lead management and communication platform provider, for up to $300 million. Under the terms of the deal, Yelp will initially pay $270 million in cash to acquire Hatch, plus up to $30 million more in employee retention payments subject to employees sticking around ...

External cyber risk management tools company Searchlight Cyber Ltd. today announced the release of Ransomware File Explorer, a new capability within its Cerberus investigation platform that provides direct, searchable visibility into file-tree data published on ransomware leak sites. The new feature allows analysts to quickly determine whether sensitive documents, personally identifiable information or intellectual property ...

Digital trust and quantum-safe security company Keyfactor Inc. today announced a new joint solution with IBM Consulting that gives enterprises visibility into their cryptographic assets, reduces operational and regulatory risk and accelerates readiness for post-quantum cryptography. The new joint solution combines Keyfactor’s cryptographic discovery, public key infrastructure, digital signing and certificate lifecycle automation capabilities with ...

Attackers are increasingly bypassing traditional malware defenses by weaponizing legitimate remote monitoring and management tools to establish persistent backdoor access inside enterprise environments, according to a new report out today from KnowBe4 Threat Labs. The report details a recent sophisticated dual-vector campaign dubbed “Skeleton Key” that shows a growing trend in which threat actors avoid ...

A new ransomware family called Osiris is being linked to an attack on a major conglomerate in Southeast Asia late last year, raising fresh concerns that experienced threat actors are behind what appears to be a newly emergent strain of ransomware. According to new research published today by Symantec and the Carbon Black Threat Hunter ...

Preemptive cyber defense startup Silent Push Inc. today announced the launch of Traffic Origin, a cybersecurity solution designed to shift an organization’s security posture from reactive to proactive. It does so by exposing the true upstream origin of adversaries, whether they’re hiding via residential proxy, laptop farm, virtual private network or other obfuscation technique. Silent Push Traffic Origin ...

Data analytics software firm Sumo Logic Inc. today announced two new Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. apps that give customers more robust visibility into their data pipeline and provide stronger and more dependable security analytics and faster troubleshooting. The apps seek to assist with the issue whereby, as data volumes and associated vulnerabilities are rapidly growing, security, ...

Vulnerable training and demo applications exposed to the public internet are being actively exploited and used as entry points for full cloud account compromise at major enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies. That’s according to a new report out today from Pentera Labs, the research arm of Pentera Security Ltd. The report, When the Lab Door Stays Open, ...

Cloud data protection startup Nightfall today announced the launch of its AI Browser Security solution, a new solution designed to stop real-time data theft through artificial intelligence tools, AI-powered browsers and modern web workflows that legacy data loss prevention solutions cannot see or control. The solution seeks to assist with the issue that has arisen as employees ...

Artificial intelligence inference startup Baseten Labs Inc. has raised $300 million in new funding on a $5 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Institutional Venture Partners LP and CapitalG LP, Google LLC’s independent growth fund, with Nvidia Corp. reportedly also participating with a $150 million investment. Founded in 2019, Baseten is an AI infrastructure ...