Amazon Web Services Inc. today provided details of a previously unknown internal suite of tools known internally as “MadPot” that the company is using to detect and successfully thwart thousands of cyberattacks. MadPot has its origins in the late 2010s and uses intelligence gathered from a vast array of sensors deployed across AWS infrastructure. It monitors ...

Generative artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Nexusflow.ai Inc. today announced that it has raised $10.6 million in new funding in a round led by Point72 Ventures LP, with Fusion Fund LLC and a number of individual investors also participating. Nexusflow was founded by Professor Jiantao Jiao (pictured, center), Professor Kurt Keutzer (left) from the Berkeley AI Research ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. rose slightly in late trading today after the Canadian software company delivered mixed earnings results. For its fiscal second quarter ended Aug. 31, BlackBerry reported an adjusted loss of $28 million, or four cents per share, a slight improvement on a loss of $29 million, or five cents a share, in ...

The U.S. and Japanese governments have issued a warning over an alleged Chinese-linked hacking group that is actively targeting and exploiting routers, particularly those from Cisco Systems Inc. The joint advisory was issued today by the U.S. National Security Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Japan National Police Agency ...

The U.S. Army has awarded a $250 million contract to Palantir Technologies Inc. to research and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. The three-year deal for AI services reportedly builds on the work Palantir has been doing since at least 2018 for the Army Research Lab. Per the terms of the new contract, Palantir will ...

Artificial intelligence-powered business-to-business payments platform startup Slope Inc. today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding to fuel product development and expansion. Founded in 2021, Slope offers a B2B payments platform designed to deliver smoother transactions between enterprises. The service aims to simplify the often complex process of B2B payments, enabling companies to ...

Zero-trust security startup Xage Security Inc. today announced that it has received a $17 million contract from the U.S. Space Force’s Space System Command to offer its zero-trust access control and data protection across SSC’s current and next-generation ground and space architectures. The contract was awarded to Xage Security Gov, a fully owned subsidiary of Xage established to ...

Irish no-code automation startup Tines Security Service Ltd. today announced an expansion of its platform to enable teams to do their best work with fewer alerts, duplicate efforts and information silos. With the expansion, the Tines Workflow Builder now offers usability and flexibility for every team, according to the company. The platform enables single builds ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency has released a new framework designed to improve the accuracy of risk assessments in the hardware supply chain. The new Hardware Bill of Materials Framework for Supply Chain Risk Management, released Monday, is a product of the Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Risk Management Task Force It has been designed ...

Infamous hacking group LockBit 3.0 was once again the most active threat actor amid a surprising drop in ransomware attacks in August, according to a new report released today by NCC Group plc. The NCC Group Monthly Threat Pulse for August 2023 details 390 ransomware attacks in the month, a figure that is down 22% from July. ...