Automated data security company Varonis Systems Inc. announced today that it plans to acquire phishing protection company SlashNext Inc. for a reported $150 million. Founded in 2014, SlashNext is a cybersecurity company that is focused on detecting and blocking phishing and social-engineering attacks across email, browsers, mobile devices and collaboration platforms. The company positions itself as a ...

Health information management platform provider Predoc announced today that it has raised $30 million in new funding to scale up its operations and broaden adoption across oncology groups, research networks and virtual care providers. Founded in 2022 as Memr Inc. by Nishant Hari, Dr. Kaushal Kulkarni, Dr. Priya Mehta and Alex Daniels, Predoc has as its ...

Advanced application security testing startup Detectify AB today announced the expansion of its AppSec platform with the addition of advanced application programming interface scanning capabilities that allow organizations to identify and remediate vulnerabilities across all layers of their modern applications. The addition seeks to address the issue where modern application environments that rely on APIs struggle with incomplete ...

Quantum algorithm company Phasecraft Ltd. announced today that it has raised $34 million in new funding to accelerate its work to transform quantum computing’s theoretical promise into practical applications. Founded in 2019, Phasecraft focuses on making quantum computing useful sooner by bridging the gap between today’s noisy, intermediate-scale quantum devices and future large-scale systems. Differing ...

Blockchain startup aPriori Network Inc. today announced that it has raised $20 million in new funding to accelerate product rollouts, expand research and engineering teams and grow partnerships across the trading and staking ecosystem. Founded in 2023, aPriori is building the execution layer for next-generation on-chain markets with a focus on institutional-grade performance. The company ...

A new report out today from browser security company SquareX Ltd. reveals a critical flaw in passkeys, the widely promoted alternative to passwords, that could allow attackers to hijack accounts across banking, e-commerce and enterprise software-as-a-service applications. Passkeys have been widely adopted in the past few years, with the FIDO Alliance estimating that there are now ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with other law enforcement agencies and international partners, is warning of an alleged Chinese government-backed “Salt Typhoon” hacking campaign that has targeted more than 200 U.S. companies across 80 countries. The FBI, the U.S. National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and the Department of Defense’s Cyber ...

Shares in CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. sagged more than 2% in late trading today after the cybersecurity company reported earnings and revenue beats in its second quarter but fell short of expectations for its third-quarter outlook. For the quarter that ended on July 31, CrowdStrike reported adjusted earnings per share of 93 cents, up from 88 cents in ...

Google LLC today announced the general availability of its Gemini artificial intelligence models on Google Distributed Cloud, extending its most advanced AI capabilities into enterprise and government data centers. The launch, which sees Gemini now available on GDC in an air-gapped configuration and in preview on GDC onnected, allows organizations with strict data residency and ...

A new report out today from Microsoft Threat Intelligence details how the financially motivated threat group Storm-0501 is shifting its focus toward cloud-based ransomware campaigns, moving beyond the on-premises tactics it previously relied on. The Storm-0501 threat group first emerged in 2021 with the deployment of Sabbath ransomware against U.S. school districts and has since ...