Security Technology

A phishing attack targeting Chinese officials working on the country coronavirus response has been linked to a hacker group with ties to Vietnam government, according to a report from cybersecurity company FireEye.

Vulnerability remediation platform Vicarius has scored $24m from a Series A financing raise led by AllegisCyber Capital, JVP and AlleyCorp.

Risk and compliance solution SecurityScorecard has netted $27.5m in its Series C funding round led by Nokia Growth Partners.

Banks and FinTech businesses are supporting a proposal made by an Australian senate committee, urging the government to launch a new data watchdog.

CyberInt, an Israeli cybersecurity detection and response services company, has completed a $18m financing round led by Viola Growth.

oak9 has closed a $5.9m seed round to support the launch of its infrastructure as a code security platform.

Signifyd, a fraud protection provider for e-commerce businesses, has raised $19m in funding. The round comes from Menlo Ventures, TriplePoint Capital and American Express Ventures.

Passwordless authentication platform Secret Double Octopus has secured $15m in its Series B round.

Nucleus Security, a unified vulnerability management and process automation provider, has scored $20m in its Series B round.