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Oasis Security Raises $35 Million to Tackle Non-Human Identity Management

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 2:32pm

New York startup Oasis Security banks $35 million in a Series A extension round led by Accel, Cyberstarts, and Sequoia Capital.

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Traceable AI Raises $30 Million to Safeguard Cloud APIs

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 2:24pm

Traceable AI has raised $110 million since launching in 2018 with ambitious plans in the competitive API security and observability space.  

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Google Boosts Bug Bounty Payouts Tenfold in Mobile App Security Push

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 11:06am

Researchers can earn as much as $450,000 for a single vulnerability report as Google boosts its mobile vulnerability rewards program.

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Adobe Adds Content Credentials and Firefly to Bug Bounty Program

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:55am

Adobe is providing incentives for bug bounty hackers to report security flaws in its implementation of Content Credentials and Adobe Firefly.

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Cuttlefish Malware Targets Routers, Harvests Cloud Authentication Data 

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:33am

Cuttlefish malware platform roaming around enterprise SOHO routers capable of covertly harvesting public cloud authentication data from internet traffic.

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Machine Identity Firm Venafi Readies for the 90-day Certificate Lifecycle

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 9:58am

Venafi introduced a 90-Day TLS Readiness solution to help enterprises prepare for Google’s proposed 90-day limit for the lifecycle of a digital certificate.

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DeepKeep Launches AI-Native Security Platform With $10 Million in Seed Funding

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 9:49am

AI-Native Trust, Risk, and Security Management (TRiSM) startup DeepKeep raises $10 million in seed funding.

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CISO Conversations: Talking Cybersecurity With LinkedIn’s Geoff Belknap and Meta’s Guy Rosen

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 8:00am

SecurityWeek interviews Geoff Belknap, CISO at LinkedIn, and Guy Rosen, CISO at Facebook parent company Meta.

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Wpeeper Android Trojan Uses Compromised WordPress Sites to Shield Command-and-Control Server

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 7:57am

The new Wpeeper Android trojan ceased operations after a week and has zero detections in VirusTotal.

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UnitedHealth CEO Says Hackers Lurked in Network for Nine Days Before Ransomware Strike

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 9:52pm

UnitedHealth Group’s CEO Andrew Witty shares details on the damaging cyberattack in testimony before a US Congress committee set for May 1, 2024.

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Finnish Hacker Gets Prison for Accessing Thousands of Psychotherapy Records and Demanding Ransoms

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 1:10pm

In February 2023, French police arrested well-known Finnish hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki, who was living under a false identity near Paris. He was deported to Finland. His trial ended last month.

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Docker Hub Users Targeted With Imageless, Malicious Repositories

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 1:08pm

JFrog raises an alarm after finding three large-scale malware campaigns targeting Docker Hub with imageless repositories.

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Critical Vulnerabilities in Judge0 Lead to Sandbox Escape, Host Takeover

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 12:56pm

Three vulnerabilities in the Judge0 open source service could allow attackers to escape the sandbox and obtain root privileges on the host.

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Apptega Raises $15 Million for Cybersecurity Compliance Platform

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 12:36pm

Mainsail Partners leads a $15 million financing round for end-to-end cybersecurity compliance platform company Apptega.

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Island Secures $175M Investment as Enterprise Browser Startups Defy Tech Giants

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 12:26pm

Despite competitive pressures from industry behemoths like Microsoft and Google, investors are still betting big on startups in the specialized enterprise browser space.

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Chinese Hackers Have Been Probing DNS Networks Globally for Years: Report

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 12:06pm

While China-linked Muddling Meerkat’s operations look like DNS DDoS attacks, it seems unlikely that denial of service is their goal, at least in the near term.

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FCC Fines Wireless Carriers for Sharing User Locations Without Consent

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:43am

The Federal Communications Commission leveraged nearly $200 million in fines against wireless carriers AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon for illegally sharing customers’ location data.

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SafeBase Scores $33M Series B Investment

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 10:00am

SafeBase has raised north of $50 million since launching in 2020 with plans to simplify vendor risk assessment disclosures.

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Vulnerability in R Programming Language Could Fuel Supply Chain Attacks

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 9:07am

A vulnerability (CVE-2024-27322) in the R programming language implementation can be exploited to execute arbitrary and be used as part of a supply chain attack.

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Why Using Microsoft Copilot Could Amplify Existing Data Quality and Privacy Issues

Tue, 04/30/2024 - 8:00am

Microsoft provides an easy and logical first step into GenAI for many organizations, but beware of the pitfalls.

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