Identity and access management startup ConductorOne Inc. has raised $15 million in new funding to enhance product development and increase its marketing efforts. Accel led the Series A round, with Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital, Active Capital and several individual investors also participating. Including the new funding, the company has raised $20 million to date, according to Crunchbase. ...

Researchers at Lookout Inc. last week detailed a newly discovered form of enterprise-grade Android “surveillanceware” or spyware, dubbed “Hermit” being used by the government of Kazakhstan. It was noted in the report that the software is believed to have been developed by Italian spyware vendor RCS Lab S.p.A. A week later, researchers at Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group today ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped slightly in after-hours trading today despite the company mostly beating analysts’ expectations for its fiscal first quarter. For the quarter ended May 31, BlackBerry reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation and legal expenses of five cents per share on revenue of $168 million. Analysts had been expecting ...

Security researchers at Secureworks Inc.’s Counter Threat Unit today published a new report on a Chinese hacking group suspected of deploying ransomware as a smokescreen for espionage. The group, called Bronze Starlight, has been active since early 2021. It compromises networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in network perimeter devices, including known vulnerabilities for which patches are ...

A phishing campaign targeting users of the MetaMask software cryptocurrency wallet is attempting to steal account credentials. Detailed today by researchers at Armorblox Inc., the phishing emails target Microsoft Office 365 customers, particularly in organizations across the financial industry. The emails used in the campaign look like a MetaMask verification email. The socially engineered emails ...

Strategy execution platform company Gtmhub Inc. today said it has acquired business reliability platform startup Cliff.ai for an undisclosed price. Based in the U.K., Cliff.ai offers a platform that it claims can monitor and track every business metric autonomously and identify key drivers. The platform finds the root cause for changes and notifies relevant teams and ...

EBay Inc. today said it has acquired nonfungible token marketplace startup KnownOrigin Labs Ltd. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, KnownOrigin pitches itself as an artist-driven NFT platform that makes it easy for creators to authenticate, showcase and sell the digital artwork they produce. The company specializes in rare digital art and collectible NFTs, ...

A new report from Microsoft Corp. today details an increase in Russian network penetration and espionage activities among allied governments, nonprofits and other organizations outside Ukraine. The report, “Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War,” is based on research conducted by Microsoft’s threat intelligence and data science teams to understand the threat landscape as ...

A researcher has found a security issue in software used by smart jacuzzis — hot tubs that connect to the internet, or as one wag put it, a “hot tub crime machine” — that exposes user data. Detailed Monday by security researcher EatonWorks, the security issue was found in software used in models produced by Jacuzzi ...

Security services company CyberProof today announced it has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to provide managed extended detection and response capabilities for Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise. Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise is a service that combines proactive threat hunting and MXDR with dedicated Microsoft security experts to manage onboarding, daily interaction, practice modernization, and incident response. ...