A new report released today by SentinelLabs, the research arm of listed cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc., provides new insights into a suspected North Korean advanced persistent threat group that is targeting media organizations and high-profile experts in North Korean affairs. Dubbed ScarCruft but also known as InkySquid and APT37, the group was observed targeting individuals, including ...

Cloud-native observability startup Chronosphere Inc. announced today that it has acquired Calyptia Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020 by the creators of the Fluent Ecosystem, Calyptia offers an enterprise platform that helps organizations manage observability data at scale with immediate insights into the performance of their applications. The platform offers what the company calls “first-mile observability” that ...

Microsoft Corp.’s security team has disclosed that Microsoft was targeted by a Russian-linked hacking group and that a small number of email accounts, including those belonging to senior staff, were compromised. The attack was detected on Jan. 12, with a response plan immediately implemented to disrupt the activity and investigate what had happened. The investigation ...

Data breach indexing site Have I Been Pwnd has just added a new data set of almost 71 million stolen user credentials from the Naz.API data set that includes 25 million previously unknown leaks. The stolen credentials cover users on sites and services, including Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Roblox Inc., Yammer and Coinbase Inc., and were ...

Some two years after confidentially filing for an initial public offering, Reddit Inc. is getting set to go public in March, according to a report today from Reuters. The report, citing unnamed sources, says Reddit plans to make its public filing in late February, followed by a roadshow in March and then listing by the end ...

Shares in iRobot Corp. dropped over 30% in late trading today after a report from the Wall Street Journal said the European Commission intends to block the $1.7 billion takeover of the company by Amazon.com Inc. The report, citing people familiar with the matter, claims that officials from the EC met on Thursday with representatives ...

Software supply chain security startup Kusari Inc. announced today that it has raised $8 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its software supply chain security solutions. Founded in 2022 by three cybersecurity experts “on a mission to bring transparency and security to the software supply chain,” Kusari seeks to help organizations identify and ...

A new report released today by artificial intelligence and machine learning systems cybersecurity startup Protect AI Inc. highlights key vulnerabilities found in those systems recently uncovered by its bug bounty program. Protect AI was founded in 2022 by former Amazon Web Services Inc. and Oracle Corp. employees, including Chief Executive Officer Ian Swanson, who was previously the worldwide leader for ...

Adaptive and autonomous security access solutions startup Oleria Corp. announced today that it has raised $33 million in new funding to accelerate its product innovation, including artificial intelligence capabilities, and expand its go-to-market strategy. The company was founded by former Salesforce Inc. Chief Trust Officer Jim Alkove and identity solutions product executive and former JumpCloud Inc. Chief ...

Taiwanese semiconductor maker Foxsemicon Integrated Technology Inc., a subsidiary of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., better known as Foxconn, has been hijacked by the LockBit ransomware gang, which made a ransom demand. The Taipei Times reported today that the Foxsemicon website showed a message in English that claimed that 5 terabytes of data had been stolen. ...