Business planning platform startup Pigment SAS said today it has raised $65 million in new funding for product and customer development and expansion in the U.S. IVP and Meritech Capital led the Series B+ round. Including the new funding, Pigment has raised $163.9 million to date, according to Crunchbase. Previous investors include FirstMark Capital, Blossom Capital and Greenoaks Capital. Founded in ...

A newly discovered form of cross-platform malware has been found in the wild infecting Linux and Windows devices, including servers, routers and FreeBSD boxes. Detailed Wednesday by researchers at Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies Inc., the new “Chaos” malware is written in the Go programming language. The name comes from the ...

Two former eBay Inc. executives were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a bizarre cyberstalking campaign against a couple who had been critical of the company. Six now-former eBay employees were arrested in June 2020 for cyberstalking David and Ina Steiner. The couple from Natick, Massachusetts, publish an online newsletter covering e-commerce businesses and ...

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has become the latest tech company to announce a hiring freeze, with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg telling staff that he expects the company to be smaller in 2023. Zuckerberg announced the hiring freeze during a weekly Q&A session, according to a person in attendance, Bloomberg reported today. ...

A new report from security operations startup Arctic Wolf Networks Inc. finds a significant uptick in business email compromise attacks for the first half of this year. Based on data analysis and insights from Arctic Wolf’s incident response unit Tetra Defense, BEC now accounts for over a third of all total cases responded to and the number ...

General Inception, a micro venture capital fund that describes itself as the first-ever “igniter” investment company, launched today with an aim to build companies from inception through scale-up and growth. As an igniter, General Inception says that it is not an accelerator or traditional venture capital fund, though it still invests in companies. Where General Inception ...

Data observability startup Acceldata Inc. today announced that Snowflake Inc. now powers its Data Observability Cloud to provide joint customers with improved visibility and reliability in monitoring and analyzing the performance and configuration of modern data environments. With the new Snowflake integration, joint customers can now ensure resources are used efficiently. Acceldata’s Data Observability Cloud provides data teams ...

Zero-trust security startup Illumio Inc. today announced a new endpoint solution designed to prevent breaches from spreading to clouds and data centers from laptops. The new Illumio Endpoint tackles the issue wherein hybrid work has expanded the attack surface and introduced new threats that make organizations more vulnerable. The solution directly addresses the need for employees to have secure ...

Electronic signature and agreement cloud company DocuSign Inc. today announced it’s laying off about 9% of its workforce to support its growth and profitability objectives and to improve its operating margin. CNBC reported that as of January, DocuSign had 7,651 employees. The cuts are expected to be completed by the end of the company’s fiscal year ...

Fresh from winning an auction to acquire the assets of now-defunct crypto brokerage firm Voyager Digital Ltd., the U.S. arm of FTX Trading Ltd. is reportedly considering bidding for the assets of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform provider Celsius Network LLC.  The claim comes from Bloomberg, which cited a person familiar with the matter late Tuesday. The report claims that ...