The Ransomware Task Force, a coalition of experts from across various cybersecurity companies and government facilitated by the Institute for Security and Technology, has shared a framework of actions on how to disrupt ransomware as a business model. The paper, which notes that ransomware is no longer simply a financial crime but an urgent national security ...

Artificial intelligence-driven threat detection and response startup Vectra AI Inc. announced today it has raised $130 million in new funding to expand its platform and expand into new markets. The round was led by funds managed by Blackstone Growth and a number of existing investors. Notably, the funding was raised on a valuation of $1.2 billion ...

Financial services company First Horizon Corp. has suffered a data breach that saw customer accounts accessed and funds stolen. Disclosed in a filing today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the data breach is described as involving an authorized third party obtaining login credentials from an unknown source and then attempting to access customer accounts. ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. beat analyst estimates for its first-quarter earnings on strong demand for its mobile devices. For the quarter ended March 31, Samsung reported revenue of KWN 65.39 trillion ($59 billion), up 18% from the same quarter of 2020 and a record for its first quarter. Net income shot up 46% from a year ...

Apple Inc. beat market expectations today with its latest quarterly earnings report, but the company warned that it’s facing supply shortages in its current quarter. For its fiscal second quarter ended March 27, Apple reported revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54% year-over-year and quarterly earnings of $1.40 per share. Analysts had been predicting a profit of ...

Salesforce.com Inc. today announced Salesforce Learning Paths, a service that brings personalized learning directly into the customer relationship management service to enable employees to learn in the flow of work when and where they need it. Workplace learning is said to be a proven driver of success for both employees and employers. According to Salesforce ...

Earthquake data analytics startup Safehub Inc. announced today it has raised $9 million in new funding to build out its sensor and analytics-based real-time earthquake damage information suite. The Series A round was led by A/O PropTech and included Hannover Digital Investments, JLL Spark, Fusion Fund, Ubiquity Ventures, Promus Ventures, Bolt, Blackhorn Ventures, Maschmeyer Group Ventures and Team ...

Payment technology company Stripe Inc. today revealed it has acquired TaxJar, a startup that allows e-commerce sellers to manage sales tax, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, TaxJar pitches itself as the leading technology solution for busy e-commerce sellers to manage sales tax. Founded by e-commerce merchants, the company’s cloud platform allows e-commerce merchants ...

Cloud-based employee performance management company 15Five Inc. today announced it has acquired employee engagement software firm Emplify Inc. for $50 million. Founded in 2010, Emplify is designed to enable executives to ask for, analyze and act on employee feedback to transform data insights into human action. Emplify fuses survey insights, employee communication, performance enhancement and transformation ...

Endpoint management startup Automox Inc. revealed today that it has raised $110 million in new funding to expand the enterprise featurese of its platform. The Series C round was led by Insight Partners and included funds managed by Blackstone, Koch Disruptive Technologies and TechOperators. Founded in 2015, Automox provides a cloud-native, cross-platform endpoint management platform designed to ...