Security Technology

The US government has unveiled a new website designed to provide businesses with greater knowledge of the threat posed by ransomware to their companies.

The US government has introduced a new interagency task force aimed at combating the increasing challenge of ransomware on the United States.

Polish fraud protection firm Nethone has bagged $6.7m from a Series A funding round co-led by ARIA and Atmos Ventures.

US cloud-native identity governance firm SecurEnds has closed a $21m Series A funding round led exclusively by venture capital company Elephant.

Canada-based passwordless authentication company Stytch raised $30m in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital.

Cybersecurity platform Virsec has secured $100m from a Series C funding round led by BlueIO.

International payments provider Vitesse has picked Alessa by Tier1 Financial Solutions to help enable secure real-time global payment transactions.

The Russian-speaking REvil ransomware gang has seen its sites go dark, a few days after it claimed responsibility for the massive cyberattack of US IT provider Kaseya.

Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) systems provider AttackIQ raised $44m in Series C funding, bringing the total raised by the company to approximately $79m.

Facebook has added a new perk to its bug bounty program that will pay bonus rewards to researchers based on the time it takes the social network to fix a vulnerability after it's found and reported by bug hunters.