Cybersecurity firm Sophos Group plc today announced a new service that helps organizations better defend against constantly changing and increasingly complex cyberattacks. Called Sophos X-Ops, the service is a cross-operational unit that links SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI, the company’s three established teams of cybersecurity experts. According to the company, Sophos X-Ops leverages each group’s predictive, real-time, ...

Blockchain security company Halborn Inc. revealed today that it has raised $90 million in a new early-stage funding round led by Summit Partners. Castle Island Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Brevan Howard also participated in the Series A round. Founded in 2019, Halborn offers cybersecurity for blockchain organizations that continually assesses an organization’s vital assets. The ...

Cloud services and servers hosted by Google LLC and Oracle Corp. in the U.K. suffered outages today from a record-breaking heatwave in the country. Temperatures in eastern England hit 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 F), the highest ever recorded in the country, causing cooling systems in data centers to struggle and some cases fail from the ...

Twitter Inc.’s lawsuit against Elon Musk over the Tesla chief executive’s attempt to cancel his acquisition deal will proceed in October after a Delaware Court today ruled against attempts by Musk to have the trial delayed until February. Lawyers representing Musk (pictured) applied for a delay in the trial late last week, claiming that Twitter ...

Information security and data privacy provider GhangorCloud Inc. today announced a new product that automates tasks associated with data discovery, classification, mapping and consumer privacy compliance enforcement. According to the company, the Compliance and Privacy Enforcement product delivers a highly scalable architecture that can be quickly deployed across enterprise and multicloud environments. Using an artificial intelligence-powered “eDiscovery Engine,” ...

Cybersecurity resiliency cloud provider Druva Inc. today announced it has expanded its portfolio with new data posture assessment and observability capabilities. Druva’s new cyberattack readiness tools are designed to give customers a centralized view of their data security posture, deep visibility into data entropy changes and the ability to assess data risks. Combined, the innovations ...

A new report today from Intel471 Inc. has detailed how hackers linked to the Conti ransomware gang are active again in the months following ContiLeaks. Conti was a prolific ransomware gang with a long list of victims. Conti victims include Ireland’s health service, Advantech Co. Ltd., voice-over-internet-protocol hardware and software maker Sangoma Technologies Corp., hospitals in Florida and Texas, Tesla Inc. ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation today warned that cybercriminals are creating fraudulent cryptocurrency applications to steal from investors. The FBI said in the private industry notification that cybercriminals have been contacting U.S. investors, fraudulently claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency services. The same cybercriminals are also persuading investors to download fraudulent mobile apps with increasing ...

Eleven years after launching Snapchat, Snap Inc. today launched Snapchat for Web, a web-based version of its popular service that works from a web browser. Pitched as a new way for the Snapchat community to stay connected when they’re at their computer, the new service allows users to start a call or pick up where ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed a bill that prohibits using digital assets in the country, including cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens, to pay for goods and services. The law, coming nearly seven months after Russia’s central bank called for a ban on using and mining cryptocurrencies, does not ban possession of cryptocurrency and digital assets, ...