Communications hub startup FrontApp Inc. has raised $65 million in new funding to accelerate investments in both product and go-to-market initiatives. Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures led the Series D round, with Sequoia Capital, Threshold Ventures, Uncork Capital and PageDuty Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Tejada, also participating. The round was raised at a valuation of $1.7 billion, giving ...

Autonomous systems software company Real-Time Innovations Inc. today announced a new production-grade connectivity framework for software-defined vehicles. RTI Connext Drive 2.0 is designed to enable developers to leverage data-centric connectivity with familiar ecosystem architectures. In doing so, the new framework offers a faster start to building on existing platforms and eliminates the need for custom programming. ...

Data platform startup Lightbits Labs Ltd. announced today that it has raised $42 million in new funding to fuel the growth of its Lightbits Cloud Data Platform, including investments in innovation and expansion. The growth capital round was led by Atreides Management and included J.P. Morgan, Valor Equity Partners, O.G. Tech, Richard Li, existing investors and others. Including the ...

A cybersecurity researcher has developed a new phishing technique that can bypass multifactor authentication and steal login cookies through Microsoft Corp.’s Edge WebView2. WebView2 is a runtime, or software and instructions that are executed while a program is running, that provides web-based features in Microsoft 365 desktop applications using Microsoft Edge as a rendering engine. As ...

A Russian hacking group has taken responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack targeting government and private organizations in Lithuania. According to a report today in The Baltic Times, the attack, from a group known as “Killnet,” caused delays in processing passports and residence permits through Lithuania’s Migration Department. Other public agencies and companies in the communications and ...

Cybersecurity firm XM Cyber Inc., owned since November by Schwarz Group, today acquired continuous end-to-end cybersecurity assessment startup Cyber Observer Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2012, Cyber Observer offers a critical controls monitoring solution designed to simplify the way cybersecurity tools and monitored and managed. The company’s platform reduces business losses and audit costs ...

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. surged 14% today after Bloomberg published a report claiming that cryptocurrency exchange FTX Digital Markets Ltd. is exploring acquiring the company. The report, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, says FTX is deliberating internally on how to buy Robinhood. No formal takeover approach has been made and FTX could ...

Security automation startup Cerby Inc. today launched a security platform for unmanageable applications that enhances security practices by empowering both employees and security teams. The Cerby zero trust architecture takes on the challenges of unmanageable applications in the shadow information technology universe. Shadow IT technologies are those selected and onboarded by business units outside the ...

Apple Inc. is preparing to launch a wide range of new products in the second half of the year and early 2023, according to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Describing the forthcoming product releases as a “flood of new products,” Gurman makes some expected predictions, such as four new iPhone models. However, he goes further, ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and the Coast Guard Cyber Command today warned network defenders that Log4Shell vulnerabilities are still being targeted by hackers. Log4Shell first emerged in December and actively targeted vulnerabilities found in Apache Log4j, open-source software used by numerous companies. The initial vulnerabilities, including subsequent others, allow hackers to access affected systems. The ...