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 ...

Fortune 1000 company and pharmacy services provider PharMerica Corp. has been struck by a ransomware attack, with data from 5.8 million patients stolen and published online. The theft of data was first disclosed in a breach notice filed with the Office of the Maine Attorney General. According to the notice, the breach occurred on March 12 ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven new Linux-related vulnerabilities to its catalog and warned that they’re being actively exploited. The vulnerabilities are described as frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to federal enterprises. Although the vulnerabilities listed are new to CISA’s database, most of the vulnerabilities ...

The popular messaging platform service Discord Inc. has suffered a data breach after a third-party agent was compromised. In a message to affected users first shared May 11 on Reddit, Discord said it was made aware of a brief incident that resulted in authorized access to a third-party customer service agent’s support ticket queue. Email addresses, ...

Industrial control system cybersecurity firm Dragos Inc. has disclosed an attempted extortion attempt that involved those behind it going as far as threatening to contact the chief executive’s wife and five-year-old son. The disturbing extortion attempt started when a known cybercriminal group, one not named by Dragos, attempted to compromise the company’s information resources. The group gained ...

Cybersecurity companies Gen Digital Inc., previously known as NortonLifeLock Inc., and CyberArk Software Ltd. reported mixed results today in their quarterly earnings reports. For its fiscal fourth quarter that ended March 31, Gen Digital reported earning before costs such as stock compensation of 46 cents per share, level with a year ago, on revenue of ...

Updated: Elon Musk announced Friday that he has name Linda Yaccarino, NBC Universal Media LLC’s head of advertising, as Twitter’s new chief executive. “@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology,” Musk tweeted Friday. “Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything ...

A new report from DNS theft protection and content filtering provider DNSFilter Inc. has found a significant surge in traffic to malicious sites containing threats in the six months to March. The State of Internet Security Q1 ’23 report found that there was a 61% increase in traffic to sites with threats from October to March, ...

The U.K. hacker behind the infamous hack of Twitter Inc. in 2020 that compromised the accounts of famous users has been extradited to the U.S., where he has pleaded guilty to various cybercrime offenses. Joseph James O’Connor, known online as “PlugWalkJoe,” was extradited from Spain on April 26 and pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy charges to ...