A new report from cybersecurity company Trellix’s Advance Research Center finds that the infamous ransomware gang LockBit has struggled to remain relevant after its supposed “takedown” by law enforcement and amid a rise of imposters and new ransomware groups. Lockbit was targeted by an international operation first revealed in February, which saw its leak site — a site ...

Digital resilience solution startup meQuilibrium today launched a new generative artificial intelligence service that illuminates work risk in an organization and provides actionable personalized interventions to individuals. Called “sparQ,” the service leverages meQ’s billions of unique human cognitive and data points to help individuals and organizations change and grow. Combined with machine learning, it offers a hyper-personalization ...

Data management startup Collibra Inc. today unveiled several product innovations designed to empower users to more easily find, govern and access data. Leading the list is the general availability of Collibra AI Governance, a solution designed for artificial intelligence and risk teams that provides full visibility and control while also ensuring the use of reliable ...

Data annotation solutions startup Sama today announced the launch of Sama Red Team, a new service designed to help developers proactively improve an artificial intelligence model’s safety and reliability. Sama Red Team leverages the expertise of machine learning engineers, applied scientists and human-AI interaction designers to evaluate a model’s fairness and safeguards, check compliance with laws ...

Human insights platform company UserTesting Inc. today launched a new feedback engine and enhancements to its artificial intelligence capabilities that help organizations capture and analyze feedback and activate insights. The new UserTesting FeedBack Engine is pitched as a meaningful advancement in providing a flexible and comprehensive solution designed to help teams build tests and capture perspectives across ...

Australian identity and access architecture company Gathid Ltd. today announced a new novel identity and access governance solution that uses a directed graph model for efficient anomaly detection and seamless integration across complex information technology infrastructures. Designed for rapid deployment, immediate applicability and integration across varied IT infrastructures, the solution was created to tackle the need for ...

Automattic Inc., the parent company of WordPress, today announced that it had acquired Beeper, the company behind the messaging app that gained widespread attention late last year when it launched a service that allowed Android users to send messages to iPhones without creating an Apple account. Although the acquisition price was not disclosed, Bloomberg, citing ...

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced an expanded strategic partnership with Google Cloud designed to stop breaches across multicloud and multivendor environments. Under the expanded partnership, artificial intelligence-powered cloud services from Google Cloud and proactive threat-hunting capability from the CrowdStrike Falcon XDR platform will be offered together to give customers the tools they need ...

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced a new partnership with information security services provider RedLegg to empower businesses with enhanced security capabilities through LogRhythm’s cloud-native security information and event management platform LogRhythm Axon. The partnership involves RedLegg’s managed security services being combined with LogRhythm Axon to provide enterprises with comprehensive security solutions tailored to each customer’s ...

Electronic design automation company Synopsys Inc. today announced the availability of Black Duck Supply Chain Edition, a new software composition analysis offering that allows organizations to mitigate upstream risks in supply chain attacks. Black Duck Supply Chain Edition combines multiple open-source detection technologies, automated third-party software bill of materials analysis and malware detection to offer a view ...