Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Orca Security Ltd. announced today that it has raised $550 million in an extended Series C round that was originally $210 million in March. The new funding will be used to expand into key industries and further grow the company’s business in the Asia-Pacific region. Including the new funding, Orca Security has raised $632 ...

Data collaboration solutions startup Duality Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding to expand its go-to-market operations, advance partnerships and further develop its technology. LG Technology Ventures led the Series B round. Also participating in the round were Euclidean Capital, NAventures, Intel Capital, Hearst Ventures and Team8. Including the new funding, Duality ...

Security researchers at cybersecurity firm Intezer Labs Ltd. have uncovered misconfigurations in older versions of Apache Airflow that expose sensitive information across major companies. The researchers said today they found that the unsecured instances expose sensitive information of companies across the media, finance, manufacturing, information technology, biotech, e-commerce, health, energy, cybersecurity and transportation industries. Apache Airflow is ...

Police in Ukraine have arrested two members of a “prolific” ransomware gang as part of a joint operation among international law enforcement agencies. The arrested occurred on Sept. 28 following a joint investigation involving the French National Gendarmerie, the Ukrainian National Police, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the International Criminal Police Organization and the ...

Artificial intelligence-powered dental health startup Retrace Labs Inc., backed by Intel Corp. and SoftBank Group Corp., today launched out of stealth mode with a product claimed to be a first for the U.S. dental market. Founded in 2016, Retrace offers a network that allows real-time connectivity between payers, providers and patients to enable instant payments based on ...

Ransomware continues to thrive despite changes in the underground hacking scene this year, according to a new report today from McAfee Enterprise. The company’s “Advanced Threat Research Report: October 2021” examined cybercriminal activity related to ransomware and cloud threats in the second quarter of 2021. Amid the shift to remote working and the highly publicized Colonial ...

Thousands of bookstores in Europe have been affected by a ransomware attack that targeted a leading software supplier. The ransomware attack targeted TiteLive, a French company that offers cloud-based software for book sales and inventory management. Bookstores affected by the ransomware attack included Libris, Aquarius, Malperthuis, Donner and Atheneum Boekhandels, The Record reported today. Other clients listed ...

Department store company Neiman Marcus Group Inc. has been hacked, with data relating to about 4.6 million customers stolen. The details of the hack were not disclosed, but Nieman Marcus said today that it occurred in May 2020. The company officially describes the theft of data as unauthorized access related to customer’s online accounts. The data ...

Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s attempt to acquire cloud contact center provider Five9 Inc. is no longer. Five9 shareholders rejected the takeover offer today after U.S. regulators raised national security concerns over the deal. Zoom had announced in July that it entered into an agreement to acquire the company for a considerable $14.7 billion. Althoughall takeover offers ...

Researchers from Salt Security Inc. today detailed a new application programming interface vulnerability that can lead to attacks on Elastic Stack. The vulnerability stems from a faulty implementation of Elastic Stack, a group of open-source products that use APIs for critical data aggregation, search and analytics capabilities. The researchers found that nearly every organization using Elastic ...