Butlr Technologies Inc., which styles itself an “artificial intelligence of things” startup, today announced that it has raised additional funding from Qualcomm Ventures LLC and launched the next generation of its Heatic wireless sensors. Founded in 2019 as a spinoff from the MIT Media Lab, Butlr offers a people monitoring platform that uses body heat to detect occupancy, ...

Cybersecurity firm XM Cyber Inc., owned since November 2021 by Schwarz Group, today revealed that it has acquired attack interception cybersecurity firm Confluera Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2018, Confluera’s platform offers real-time attack interception and defense by deterministically identifying complex, multistage attacks. The platform tracks all activities within an enterprise’s infrastructure, malicious or benign, to ...

Italian vehicle manufacturer Ferrari S.p.A. has disclosed that it has suffered a “cyber incident” that involved a threat actor with a ransom demand related to certain client contact details. Upon receipt of the ransom demand, the company launched an investigation with an outside cybersecurity firm. Ferrari said Monday it has also contacted relevant authorities, saying ...

Cybersecurity firm Sophos Group plc today announced a partnership with cybersecurity insurance provider Cowbell Cyber Inc. to provide businesses with an easier way to access cyber insurance. The partnership will allow Sophos customers to directly share their security health information with Cowbell to facilitate optimal premium quotes and policies and gain access to Cowbell insurance through the Sophos Marketplace. ...

Adaptive and autonomous security access solutions startup Oleria today launched with $8 million in funding raised from Tapestry Venture Capital LLC and angel investors, including chief executive officers and chief information security officers of prominent tech and security companies. Founded by former Salesforce Inc. Chief Trust Officer Jim Alkove (pictured) and identity solutions product executive and ...

A new report out today from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 finds that ransomware and extortion actors are using more aggressive tactics to pressure organizations, with harassment involved 20 times more often in ransomware attacks than in 2021. The 2023 Unit 42 Ransomware and Extortion Report found that ransomware harassment is typically carried out via ...

The National Basketball Association is the latest organization to suffer a data breach, with fan data stolen following the hack of a third-party newsletter service provider. The association started informing affected fans last week, only describing the data theft as an “incident” they are sorry for. The data stolen from the unnamed third-party provider included ...

A previously little-documented attack group based in Southeast Asia has been actively targeting companies worldwide to steal data using new forms of malware. Tracked as “REF2924” by researchers at Elastic Security Labs, the security research arm of Elastic Inc., the group is notable for the malware it has created, the researchers said today. The first new malware ...

Digital identity management company ForgeRock Inc. today announced Enterprise Connect Passwordless, a new authentication solution that eliminates the need for users to interact with passwords inside large organizations. Developed through a strategic partnership between ForgeRock and password authentication company Secret Double Octopus Ltd., the new solution is integrated into the ForgeRock Identity Platform to protect commonly used ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a New York man on Wednesday on suspicion of running BreachForums, the popular internet forum that has become a favorite among hackers to share their exploits on the regular internet. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, known online as “Pompompurin” or “Pom” has been a reasonably high-profile hacker who has been ...