U.S. mortgage lender LoanDepot Inc. is the latest company to be hit by a cyberattack that affected internal systems and caused disruption for customers. The attack reportedly occurred over the weekend, with the company officially disclosing the attack in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In the filing, LoanDepot describes the ...

The MC² Security Fund, an affiliate of investment firm The Chertoff Group LLC, has acquired cybersecurity company Trustwave Holdings Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 1995 and owned by Singapore telecommunications giant Singtel Holdings Ltd. following a $810 million acquisition in 2015, Trustwave offers a suite of cybersecurity services, including managed detection and response, managed security services, cyber advisory, ...

Email security provider Mimecast Ltd. announced today that it has acquired human risk management solutions startup Elevate Security Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2017, Elevate Security offers a human risk platform designed to help enterprises proactively identify and safeguard their riskiest users. The platform offers risk intelligence and risk intervention, allowing security teams ...

An X Corp. account belonging to Google LLC-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant was hacked on Wednesday and used to promote a cryptocurrency scam. The scammer who took control of the account on X, still generally known as Twitter, spread a cryptocurrency scam while pretending to be the Phanton crypto wallet, with a message claiming that a ...

Automation platform startup Vigilant Ops Inc. has raised $2 million in seed funding from DataTribe Capital LLC to expand the capabilities of its InSight platform across critical infrastructure industries. Founded in 2019, Vigilant Ops provides solutions for the generation, management and vulnerability monitoring of software bills of materials or SBOMs. The company’s platform is used ...

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced a number a new innovations designed to prioritize speed and efficiency for agile and high-performing security teams. Dedicated to optimizing the efficiency of security operation center teams and analysts, the new innovations are focused on seamless integration and broad case management improvements. The latest additions to the LogRhythm platform provide a ...

New reports released today by PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor and Crunchbase Inc. detail just how grim 2023 was for venture capital funding of startups, both in the U.S. and globally. The year saw global startup funding plummet to $285 billion, down 38% from 2022, according to Crunchbase. The poor figure highlights a broader trend of reassessment and cautious progression ...

Xerox Holdings Corp. subsidiary Xerox Business Solutions has suffered from a data breach following a ransomware attack. The attack first came to light on Dec. 29 when the INC Ransom ransomware gang added Xerox Business Solutions to its dark web leaks site. According to Bleeping Computer, the gang claimed to have stolen sensitive data and ...

The records of some 4.5 million individuals have been exposed and potentially stolen following a cyberattack on New Jersey-based population health management software company HealthEC LLC. In a breach notice on its site, HealthEC says it became aware of suspicious activity on its network in July and that a subsequent investigation, completed Oct. 24, had ...

Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire PingSafe Pte Ltd., a cloud-native application protection platform startup, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2021, PingSafe offers a CNAPP solution that it claims delivers dynamic, real-time monitoring of multicloud workloads, simple setup and configuration and low false positive rates. Designed to bridge the gap between attackers’ modus ...