A new report today from Forescout Technologies Inc. finds that the U.S. remained the primary target for threat actors amid 164 countries targeted by malicious actors in 2023. The Forescout Research Vedere Labs 2023 Global Threat Roundup Report found that the U.S. was targeted by 168 malicious actors in 2023, followed by the U.K. being targeted by ...

Google LLC is further enhancing its artificial intelligence offerings, today announcing updates to two of its flagship products, Chrome Chrome and Google Ads, aimed at streamlining user experiences in web browsing and digital advertising. The AI enhancements that will be most noticeable to users come in Google Chrome, with three new generative AI features that ...

Unified data control startup Securiti Inc. and cloud security company Lacework Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership that allows customers to safeguard their sensitive data using Lacework’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform and Securiti’s Data Command Center. Securiti brings to the partnership contextual data intelligence and unified controls across the hybrid multicloud. Its Data Command Center delivering the ...

A new report today from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 details changes in how the prolific BianLian ransomware group operates as the group evolves to target primarily the healthcare and manufacturing sectors and the U.S. and Europe. BianLian first emerged around 2021 and came to widespread attention in 2022 when it targeted companies in the U.S., the U.K. ...

The rise of artificial intelligence has been well-documented over the last year, and that rise has also prompted increasing interest in opportunities to invest in new AI startups. Catering to this need, Myriad Venture Partners LLC today launched as a new early-stage venture capital firm focused on artificial intelligence, clean technology and enterprise business-to-business software with an ...

Cloud security company Zscaler Inc. today debuted Zscaler Zero Trust SASE, a single-vendor secure access service edge solution, and also announced the general availability of its Zero Trust SD-WAN solution. The solutions are built on zero-trust architecture. That’s the cybersecurity concept centered on the principle that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside ...

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 ...