The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Australian Cyber Security Centre have issued a joint warning about a change in tactics from a well-known ransomware group from traditional ransomware encryption to exfiltration-based extortion. The group, called BianLian, is believed to have first emerged in 2021. It came to widespread ...

Shares in Synopsys Inc. rose slightly in late trading after the electronic design automation company reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings. For its fiscal second quarter that ended April 30, Synopsys reported earnings before costs such as stock compensation of $393.3 million, or $2.54 per share, up from $390.8 million, or $2.50 per share, in the same quarter ...

Data analytics acceleration startup NeuroBlade Ltd. today announced that its NeuroBlade SQL Processing Unit will be made available to Dell Power Edge users. The collaboration, announced at the Dell Technologies World 2023 conference in Las Vegas today, is claimed to pioneer a new standard for data analytics acceleration that speeds time to insight and improves query performance ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Entro Security Ltd. today announced that it has raised $6 million in funding to do further development of its secrets security and management platform. Secrets security protects access keys and credentials from unauthorized access, disclosure, or use. Secrets are often programmatic access keys, such as application programming interface keys, access tokens and ...

Japanese security integration company Secom Co. Ltd. today announced that it has invested $192 million into two cloud-based security solutions providers: Eagle Eye Networks Inc. and Brivo Inc. Both Eagle Eye and Brivo are majority-owned by Dean Drako, the founder and former chief executive officer of Barracuda Networks Inc. Drako founded Eagle Eye in 2012 and ...

A new report from cybersecurity and cyber insurance startup Coalition Inc. finds that policyholders with as few as one unresolved critical vulnerability are more likely to experience a claim. The 2023 Cyber Claims Report found that having even one unpatched vulnerability increased the risk of cyber insurance claims by 33%. The report also found that organizations that ...

Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne Inc. today announced plans to offer its Singularity Hologram deception solution as a service to enable security teams to detect and prevent identity-based attacks with greater speed and efficiency. Singularity Hologram is a network-based threat deception tool that lures covert threat actors and insiders into engaging and revealing themselves. The service leverages deception and decoy ...

Managed cybersecurity platform startup Huntress Labs Inc. today announced that it has raised $60 million in new funding to help underserved small to medium-sized businesses with their cybersecurity needs. Founded in 2015, Huntress offers a cybersecurity platform that uses automated detection and human-powered threat hunting to find and stop hidden threats, including those that bypass traditional security ...

A new report out today from application programming interface security startup Cequence Security Inc. finds massive increases in threats and the targeting of “shadow” APIs in the last half of 2022. Based on the analysis of about 1 trillion transactions spanning various industries over the second half of 2022, the report focuses on the tactics, techniques ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it has extended its Cloudflare One platform to cover generative artificial intelligence to enable enterprises to use the latest AI tools without putting intellectual property and customer data at risk. Cloudflare One for AI offers a suite of zero-trust security controls that are designed to provide a simple, fast ...