The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday morning it seized more than $3.6 billion in allegedly stolen cryptocurrency linked to the 2016 hack of Bitfinex. As part of the operation, DOJ said it has also arrested a New York […]
Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole made headlines yesterday after hackers breached its network stealing more than $320 million from its site in the second-largest DeFi hack ever. As we reported yesterday night, hackers exploited the Wormhole network, one of the biggest bridges between […]
In August last year, we wrote about a DeFi theft involving Polygon after hackers exploited the interoperability protocol on Binance Smart Chain stealing more than $600 million from at least three wallet addresses. The exploit was the largest DeFi hack ever […]
NSO Group is an Israeli cybersecurity tech startup you’ve probably never heard of. The startup has no web presence and its spyware is used by private companies and government agencies to spy on their citizens. The NSO Group’s military-grade Pegasus spyware is […]
No week goes by with another report of a ransomware attack. The growing threat of cyberattacks and malware has increased over the last decade. In 2021, ransomware attacks on Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and other major organizations dominated the headlines. The attacks […]
The Lockbit 2.0 ransomware gang announced Thursday it had hacked France’s Ministry of Justice’s systems and threatened to release the files stolen unless France government meets its demand. The infamous cybercriminal group said it has encrypted the stolen files and now asking for […]
HackerOne, a bug bounty and penetration testing startup that provides direct access to the world’s top ethical hackers, has raised a $49 million Series E following a year of massive growth. The funding, which brings the company’s total funding to nearly […]
The days of developing software from scratch are long gone. Over the past decades, the vast majority of developers today don’t develop software from the ground up but instead, rely on third-party resources when creating software. By using pre-built software […]
Time flies! It was just like yesterday when 1Password raised $200 million after 17 years of bootstrapping. We first covered 1Password back in 2019 after the Toronto-based cybersecurity startup raised $200M Series A from Accel. A lot of changed since then. The […]
In the first six months of 2019 alone, over 4 billion personal records were exposed due to digital security breaches. Among other things, these records were used en masse to conduct digital identity theft, with unknowing recipients having their data […]
For many years most common web threats come from a few malware families that share common characteristics including viruses, social engineering, malicious code, exploits, and cybercrimes. But that’s changing according to a new cybersecurity threat report. According to the data presented […]
Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike is stepping down as CEO of the secure messaging app company. Marlinspike made the announcement in a blog post on Monday. Executive chairman Brian Acton, who is also on the Signal Foundation board, will serve as acting CEO until a […]
2021 was a great year for cryptocurrency investors around the world as the frenzy for bitcoin and other crypto-assets reached new highs. However, crypto investors are not the only winners. Crypto scammers also had a blockbuster year with a windfall […]
France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL has fined Alphabet’s Google €150 million ($169 million) and Facebook €60 ($68,000) million for violating EU privacy rules by making it difficult for French internet users to refuse online trackers known as cookies. According to the information […]
2021 has turned out to be a great year for cryptocurrencies. During the past 12 months, bitcoin and other alt cryptocurrencies enjoyed a surge in mainstream adoption and support from institutional investors. Bitcoin went from $29,000 on January 1 to […]
On December 9, MITRE disclosed a previously unknown new zero-day vulnerability in the popular Java logging package log4j v2.x known as Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228). Log4j is an open-source logging system widely used in a large number of enterprise systems. Hackers may already be taking […]
It has been almost two years since we last covered Sysdig, a container security startup that enables companies to securely run cloud-native workloads in production. Back then, Sysdig raised $70 million in late-stage funding round to extend market presence. Since then, Sysdig has witnessed […]
Today, organizations struggle to keep up with changing infosec and privacy regulatory requirements from governments around the world. Some companies are unable to distribute and communicate information about compliance posture to their customers. And that’s where Laika comes in. The JP […]
Cryptocurrency hackers strike again. Last August, hackers stole over $90 million worth of crypto coins from the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid. The crypto startup also said that some of its digital currency wallets had been “compromised,” and that hackers were transferring the […]
NSO Group is a cybersecurity tech startup you’ve probably never heard of. Founded about 12 years ago, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based NSO Group develops technology that helps government agencies prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe. The […]
