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Piiano announced that it has raised a $9M seed round. The round was led by cybersecurity-focused VC YL Ventures with the participation of Jibe Ventures and founders of cybersecurity companies such as Snyk, Armis, Wiz and Aqua. Founded by security exper… Continue reading Piiano raises $9M to secure and control PII with data privacy engineering for the cloud
42Crunch announced two key senior additions to its growing global team. Stephen Gomann has been appointed as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) to lead the company’s sales organization, overseeing global sales and business development. Hugh Carroll has … Continue reading 42Crunch expands its global team with two key executive appointments
Akamai Technologies announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Tel Aviv, Israel-based Guardicore. By adding Guardicore’s micro-segmentation solution into Akamai’s extensive zero trust security portfolio, Akamai will be … Continue reading Akamai acquires Guardicore to expand its zero trust security portfolio
On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from “Meris,” the same new “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet behind record-shattering attacks against Russian search giant Yandex this week and internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare earlier this summer. Continue reading KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”
Orca Security announced that Andy Ellis, famed cybersecurity leader, has joined the company as an advisory CISO. Ellis will harness his broad security expertise from product development to industry awareness building, and even supporting HR, leadership… Continue reading Andy Ellis joins Orca Security as advisory CISO
Imperva names Scott Lovett as Chief Revenue Officer, and Karl Triebes as Senior Vice President of Product Management and General Manager of the Application Security business unit. Lovett brings three decades of cybersecurity sales expertise that will f… Continue reading Imperva deepens executive bench with two new additions
A global internet outage on Thursday downed tens of thousands of websites, including those of giant corporations like McDonald’s and Delta Airlines, according to companies that track web statistics. But the company at the center of it says the downtime was not the result of a hack, data breach or other kind of malicious attack. Internet infrastructure company Akamai said it has fixed the issue that it began investigating shortly after noon EST. The specific problem was with Akamai Edge DNS, a service that touts its ability to provide constant Domain Name System availability. “Akamai can confirm this was not a cyberattack against Akamai’s platform,” the company said in a statement. “A software configuration update triggered a bug in the DNS system, the system that directs browsers to websites,” the company said in a statement explaining what went wrong. “This caused a disruption impacting availability of some customer websites.” Before […]
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Hackers are infecting torrented copies of popular video games with malware that disables antivirus programs, in order to leverage gamers’ computers to mine cryptocurrency, according to a recent report from Avast. The malware, which researchers have named “Crackonosh,” has infected over 220,000 unique devices since 2020. Using the coin miner known as XMRig, cybercriminals have been able to make a total of roughly $2 million worth of Monero cryptocurrency with the malware. Infected files used to install the malware included malicious copies of popular games including The Sims 4, Grand Theft Auto V and Fallout 4. By duping users who download free versions of games that normally cost upwards of $50, fraudsters prey on unwitting users to borrow their computing power. Malicious traffic against the video game industry grew more than any other industry over the past year, according to a recent report from researchers at Akamai Technologies. Criminals are […]
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Cyberattack traffic targeting the video game industry grew more than any other industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Akamai’s report, the video game industry suffered more than 240 million web application attacks in 2020, a 340% increase … Continue reading Cyberattack traffic targeting video game industry surged during the pandemic
Akamai announces platform security enhancements to strengthen protection for web applications, APIs, and user accounts. Akamai’s machine learning derives insight on malicious activity from more than 1.3 billion daily client interactions to intell… Continue reading Akamai’s platform security enhancements strengthen protection for web apps, APIs and user accounts