In a bizarre twist in the alleged hacking of Solana-based trading platform Mango Markets last week, the alleged hacker has come forward and returned some of the lost funds, claiming that he undertook a legal strategy to manipulate the cryptocurrency trading platform. A Twitter user by the name of Avraham Eisenberg has claimed responsibility for removing ...

Cybersecurity company WithSecure Oyj is warning that a security flaw in Microsoft 365 Message Encryption can leak structural information in messages. WithSecure, previously known as F-Secure until March, explained that the issue with Microsoft 365, known as Office 365 until yesterday, is that Microsoft uses an Electronic Codebook implementation. That’s a mode of operation known to ...

A year and a half after Microsoft Corp. won a potential $22 billion contract to supply its HoloLens augmented reality headsets to the U.S. Army, the deal isn’t looking so good after it was found that most soldiers got headaches from using the next-generation device. Bloomberg reported today that a study by the Pentagon’s testing office ...

Cloud security company Lacework Inc. today announced the release of a new cloud threat report and a new open-source tool for cloud security efficacy testing. The new “Cloud Hunter” tool is designed to help customers keep pace with ever-improving adversarial tradecraft through advanced environmental analysis and improved incident response time. Cloud Hunter uses the Lacework Query Language ...

Cybersecurity software provider Tanium Inc. today announced the launch of a new solution that delivers real-time holistic assessments of the security and operational risks associated with connected endpoints. Tanium Benchmark is designed to help teams prioritize efforts, collaborate effectively and take risk-mitigation action while reducing information technology costs and complexity. Powered by the Tanium XEM platform, the solution determines ...

Cloud email security and brand protection startup Redsift Ltd. revealed today that it has acquired attack surface management company Hardenize Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2016, Hardenize offers a platform for automated discovery and monitoring of an entire network perimeter. The company’s continuous monitoring and discovery services monitor infrastructure and certificates to prevent breakage and ...

Cloud computing company Nutanix Inc. today announced the general availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Microsoft Azure, extending its hybrid cloud environment to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure dedicated bare metal nodes. The NC2 service on Azure offers seamless, hyper-converged infrastructure and unified management that spans private and public cloud environments to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption. NC2 ...

Solana-based trading platform Mango Markets has lost around $116 million in cryptocurrency after a hacker is believed to have undertaken a “flash loan” attack. A flash loan attack is a decentralized finance attack where a cybercriminal takes out a flash loan — a noncollateralized loan from a lending protocol — and then manipulates the price ...

Developer software startup Diagrid Inc. today launched out of stealth mode, announcing that it has raised $20 million in new funding to invest in serving the open-source community and to build a suite of commercial tools and services for engineering teams. Norwest Venture Partners led the Series A round, with Amplify Partners and Quiet Capital also participating. Including ...

Cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes Inc. today launched a new managed detection and response product that combines endpoint detection and response with human-delivered security expertise to provide nonstop threat hunting, monitoring and response. Malwarebytes MDR is designed to assist organizations that lack the time and expertise to monitor and validate security alerts amid a shortage of skilled cybersecurity professionals. ...