Cybersecurity company S.C. Bitdefender SRL today debuted a new scam detection service designed to help users verify fraudulent online schemes delivered by email, embedded links, text and instant messaging with assistance from an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot. Called Bitdefender Scamio, the new service is a scam detection chatbot that offers a second opinion on potential fraud attempts by ...

Hacker-powered cybersecurity solutions provider Zerocopter today launched a new marketplace that enables companies to expose vulnerabilities and detect threats more efficiently and affordably. Supported by Zerocopter’s hundreds-strong hacker network, the new marketplace is tailored to businesses of any size and offers a new way of accessing security packages through its software-as-a-service marketplace without requiring lengthy ...

Cybersecurity services company Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd. today published details of a previously unknown threat group that has been active in targeting gambling, government, retail and travel websites in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Brazil. Dubbed “GambleForce,” the threat group uses a set of basic yet very effective techniques, including SQL injections and ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Zero Networks Ltd. announced today that it has raised $20 million in new funding to recruit development, marketing and sales personnel. Founded in 2019, Zero Networks aims to tackle what the company calls one of the most complex problems in cybersecurity: preventing attacks from moving laterally within an organization’s network to exfiltrate ...

Knowledge management startup Stravito AB today announced a new integration feature with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams for seamless knowledge integration across sources. The new feature has been designed to make it easier to automatically sync and upload SharePoint files to the Stravito platform, improving accessibility to critical insights, among other benefits. In addition to improving accessibility to insights, Stravito ...

A new report released today by application programming interface security company Cequence Security Inc. warns that retail fraud is up nearly 700% as cybercriminals exploit the holiday shopping season. The report is based on anonymized traffic and attack data from billions of transactions from Cequence’s customer base, which includes Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies. It found ...

A new report released today by identity verification company AU10TIX Ltd. has found an interesting shift in identity fraud away from cryptocurrency and toward the payment sector. The Q3 2023 Global Identity Report, based on insights from millions of transactions across 249 countries from July to September, found that professional fraud rings have shifted their focus from ...

Toyota Motor Co. has been hacked again, with Toyota Kreditbank GmbH, the German arm of Toyota’s financial services branch, providing details of a data breach that may have affected customers through Europe and Africa. The breach, which affected Toyota Financial Services, was initially disclosed in November, with the company taking systems offline as a result. ...

Space security company True Anomaly Inc. announced today that it has raised $100 million in new funding. Founded in early 2022 by former military operators and engineers, True Anomaly is focused on building solutions that address space domain awareness, security and readiness challenges. Its platform offers seamless satellite, navigation and data-capture technologies designed to provide security and training ...

Software-as-a-service bot protection startup DataDome today announced Device Check, an invisible CAPTCHA alternative designed to keep bots at bay and human users secure. Described as an “invisible challenge” that works behind the scenes, Device Check validates device-specific signals with proofs of work without prompting any visible interaction with end users. It does so by analyzing device-specific signals in ...