Payments startup SpotOn Transact Inc. announced today that it has raised a $300 million late-stage funding round to develop its product offering further. The Series F round was led by Dragoneer Investment Group and included Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, Franklin Templeton, Mubadala Investment Co. and G Squared. Including the new funding, the company has raised $928 million to ...

Data-centric security startup Seclore Technology Pvt. Ltd. said today it has raised $27 million in new funding to try to become the platform of choice for enterprise data protection initiatives. Origami Capital Partners and Oquirrh Ventures led the Series C round. Including the new funding, Seclore has raised $46 million to date. Previous investors include Helion Venture Partners, ...

Hackers are reported to be actively targeting WordPress sites with unpatched versions of the Tatsu no-code page builder plugin installed. Detailed Monday by Ram Gall at Wordfence, the large-scale attack is targeting a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Tatsu that was publicly disclosed in March. Although an updated version of the plugin has since been released, ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a flash alert warning businesses that cybersecurity actors are scraping credit card data from online checkout pages. The alert, sent Monday, states that as of January, the unidentified cyber attacker scraped credit card data from a business by injecting malicious PHP code into the business’ online checkout ...

A new report today details Apple Inc.’s long struggles with building a mixed reality headset. The Information spoke with 10 people close to Apple’s headset project who detailed issues with the project going back to 2016. Apple was first reported to be working on a headset as early as 2015. Insiders in the report claim ...

Machine and “internet of things” identity platform provider Keyfactor Inc. today announced a technology integration with Fortanix Inc. to allow enterprise and managed service providers to simplify and secure machine identity management. The technology integration combines the benefits of certificate lifecycle automation with key protection in Fortanix Data Security Manager. Using the combination, the companies say, ...

Unified access orchestration startup Pathlock today announced that it has raised $200 million in new funding and has merged with data security solutions company Appsian and compliance management company Security Weaver. It also announced that it has acquired Belgium-based governance, risk and compliance management provider CSI Tools and Germany-based SAST Solutions. The new funding was led ...

New cybersecurity venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures Alpha LLC today announced its debut fund, expected to close at $300 million, as well as investments in several companies. Ballistic Ventures was established late last year by cybersecurity professionals and is dedicated to investing in early-stage cybersecurity and cyber-related companies. The firm describes itself as a new ...

Application security testing startup Oxeye Ltd. today announced the general availability of its Cloud Native Application Security Testing platform. Debuted at KubeCon 2022, the platform identifies custom code and open-source vulnerabilities and software secrets to reveal the critical, exploitable security issues as an integral part the software development lifecycle. The platform is said to deliver developers and ...

Microsoft Corp. has incorporated technology from its acquisition of goal-planning and execution management software startup Ally Technologies Inc. late last year into a new product called Microsoft Viva Goals. A module released today under the Microsoft Viva employee experience platform, Viva Goals is designed for business goal setting and management. The company said it brings ...