Tag: Cybersecurity

A Biden administration directive will require US pipeline operators to conduct a cybersecurity assessment on their pipelines following the recent Colonial Pipeline hack.

Belgium’s Federal Public Service (FPS) Interior has claimed it has suffered a ‘complex, sophisticated and targeted cyberattack’ to its IT system.

PayPal has entered a collaboration with online fraud and abuse prevention company Arkose Labs to tackle fraud and security threats on its Honey shopping platform.

US fraud prevention business Forter has snared $300m from a Series F funding round led by Tiger Global Management.

A dark web hacker has pleaded guilty to stealing information from 65,000 employees of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).

UK security company Tessian has closed a $65m Series C funding round led by March Capital.

Software giant Microsoft has released SimuLab, an open-source lab technology that will help its platform defences fight against real attack scenarios.

Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic has discovered the DarkSide ransomware variant made an estimated $90m in ransomware payments since October 2020.

US endpoint security provider ThreatLocker has closed a $20 Series B funding round led by venture capital firm Elephant.

A report by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has found cybercrime complaints hiked by 100% over a 14-month period.