Threat protection-focused startup Deep Instinct Ltd. today announced Prevention for Storage, a new offering that applies a prevention-first approach to storage protection wherever data is stored. Deep Instinct Prevention for Storage has been designed to tackle the issue wherein digital transformation is resulting in applications and services, employees and customers generating more data than ever before. The company ...

Digital identity management and verification startup Jumio Corp. today unveiled a new fraud-fighting technology that uses artificial intelligence-driven predictive analytics to identify fraud patterns with more sophistication and accuracy. Called Jumio 360° Fraud Analytics, the new service has been designed to tackle the issue of interconnected fraud — that is, fraud perpetrated by fraud rings or by individuals using the ...

Shares in Okta Inc. dropped Friday after the identity and access management company disclosed yet another data breach. The breach is officially described by Okta as involving “adversarial activity that leveraged access to a stolen credential to access Okta’s support case management system.” Using the stolen credentials, the threat actor was able to view files uploaded by ...

Japanese electronic company Casio Computer Co. Ltd. has suffered a data breach, and the company warned that data from customers in Japan and internationally has been stolen. According to Casio’s breach notice Wednesday, which also included an apology, the data breach involved an external party gaining unauthorized access to the server for the company’s education ...

An international law enforcement operation involving the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation and various national police forces has seized data leak sites belonging to the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang. As first reported today by Bleeping Computer, visits to Ragnar Locker’s main dark web leak site now shows a message ...

A new report from cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes Inc. today details a “malvertising” attack that exploits Google LLC ads to trick users into visiting a fake site for the open-source password management KeePass. Described by the Malwarebytes Labs researchers as “clever,” the attack methodology involves the attackers impersonating the official KeePass website using the Punycode character encoding system ...

A new report today from Crunchbase Inc. has found positive news in the troubled venture capital landscape, with funding into cybersecurity startups increasing in the third quarter. The report found that funding in cybersecurity startups increased 12% in the quarter, with nearly $1.9 billion invested through 153 deals, up from $1.7 billion across 181 deals in the ...

A new report released today by security awareness training company KnowBe4 Inc. finds that human resources-related email subjects remain a principal strategy among cyberattackers, accounting for more than half of the top-clicked phishing email subjects. The KnowBe4 third quarter phishing report found that phishing emails continue to be one of the most common methods to perpetuate ...

Australian searchable data encryption cybersecurity startup CipherStash Pty. Ltd. announced today that it has raised $3 million in new funding to expand its digital defense offerings against increasingly complex tactics employed by cybercriminals and provide protection against data breaches, identity theft and other digital threats. Founded in 2022, CipherStash uses advanced queryable encryption technology to keep data ...

Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group today warned users of a vulnerability in file archiving and compressing software WinRAR that’s being actively exploited by hacking groups, including allegedly state-sponsored actors. The researchers at Google TAG have observed hacking groups leveraging a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-3883. The vulnerability, found in versions of WinRAR before 6.23, allows attackers to ...