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Israeli automotive cybersecurity startup Upstream Security raises $62M
Israeli automotive cybersecurity startup Upstream Security Inc. has raised $62 million in new funding to improve growth and increase its headcount. Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance led the Series C round. Other investors included I.D.I. Insurance, 57 Stars’ NextGen Mobility Fund and La Maison Partners. Founded in 2017, Upstream Security offers a centralized security and analytics platform ...
Urbint raises $60M to scale up its risk management platform
Risk management platform startup Urbint announced today it has raised $60 million in new funding to scale up its technology and introduce new solutions to meet the rising demand for its incident prevention software. Energize Ventures led the Series C round in the company, which is formally named Off Market Data Inc. Other investors include American Electric ...
Report finds 40% of all SaaS data is unmanaged, creating significant threats
A new report today from software-as-a-service company DoControl Inc. has found that 40% of all SaaS data access is unmanaged, creating significant insider and external threats. Described as a wakeup call to chief information officers and chief information security officers and the enterprises they protect, the report details the significant threat of unchecked and named ...
Threat hunting cybersecurity startup Hunters raises $30M to drive innovation
Threat hunting cybersecurity startup Hunters today announced that it has raised $30 million in new funding to increase its headcount, drive innovation, enhance customer satisfaction, increase market reach and support partner expansion. Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series B round into the company, incorporated as Cyber Hunters Ltd. Other investors included YL Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Microsoft’s ...
Israeli connected-home experience startup Veego raises $13M
Israeli connected-home experience startup Veego Software Ltd. said today it has raised $13 million in new funding to enhance its machine learning models. Magenta Venture Partners led the Series A round. Other investors included State of Mind Ventures, Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH, North First Ventures and Amdocs Ventures. Founded in 2018, Veego is aiming to become ...
Didi suspends European expansion plans amid ongoing drama with Chinese authorities
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc. is reported to have suspended plans to launch in the U.K. and Europe amid its ongoing drama with Chinese authorities. The Telegraph reported today that staff working on the expansion plans in the U.K. have been told that they may be made redundant because of plans to put expansion on ...
State Department reportedly hit by serious cyberattack
The U.S. State Department is said to have been hit by a serious cyberattack that was reported to the Department of Defense Cyber Command, according to Fox Business. The details of the type of attack, exactly when it happened and what data may have been stolen were not revealed. Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich said on ...
Hacker behind $600M Poly Network theft returns stolen cryptocurrency
Poly Network, the cross-chain decentralized finance platform provider that had about $600 million in cryptocurrency stolen from it earlier this month, has had all the funds returned. The hack, first reported Aug. 10, involved the theft of Binance Chain, Ethereum and Polygon assets, with estimates that they were worth at the time up to $611 ...
Critical vulnerability in older ‘end of life’ Cisco routers to remain unpatched
A critical vulnerability in older Cisco Systems Inc. routers will remain unpatched after the company advised that they have reached end-of-life status. The vulnerability is in the Universal Plug-and-Play service in Cisco Small Business RV110W, RV130, RV130W and RV214W routers. Rated by Cisco as “critical,” it could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code ...
70M stolen AT&T records advertised for sale by well-known hacker
Telecommunications company AT&T Inc. may have been hacked, as a well-known hacker advertised a database from the company with more than 70 million customer records. The listing on the hacking site Raid Forums, from ShinyHunters, claims that the database includes Social Security numbers and dates of birth. In a change from a typical offer, Shiny ...









