Cloud data access control solutions provider Immuta this week announced raising $90 million in Series D funding, which brings the total capital invested in the company to $169 million. Founded in 2015, the Boston-based company offers a platform that data engineers and DataOps teams can use to automate data governance, security, access control and privacy ..
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Healthcare IoT cybersecurity and asset management solutions provider Cynerio this week announced closing a $30 million Series B funding round. To date, the company has raised a total of $37 million. Cynerio was founded in 2017 and it has offices in Israel and New York. The company has developed a platform that is designed to ..
The Alaska health department website was the target of a malware attack, officials said. A similar attack previously targeted the state’s court system. The health department in a statement late Tuesday said its website was taken offline Monday while an investigation takes place. The statement did not say when the cyberattack was discovered, and Clinton ..
Endpoint security provider ThreatLocker this week announced that it secured $20 million in a Series B funding round that brings the total capital raised by the company to $24.5 million. Founded in 2017, the Florida, U.S.-based company offers enterprise-level cybersecurity tools aimed at securing both servers and endpoints. By implementing a zero trust policy, ThreatLocker ..
F5 Networks this week released patches to address an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), but fixes are not available for all impacted versions. Tracked as CVE-2021-23008, the high-severity vulnerability allows for the bypass of BIG-IP APM AD (Active Directory) authentication if the attacker can hijack a Kerberos KDC (Key Distribution Center) ..
Cloud solutions provider DigitalOcean has started informing some customers that their billing information may have been compromised after someone exploited a vulnerability in the company’s systems. In an email sent to customers, DigitalOcean said the unauthorized access occurred between April 9 and April 22, 2021, but it was apparently only “confirmed” on April 26. “An ..
Threat detection and response solutions provider Vectra AI on Thursday announced that it has raised $130 million at a valuation of $1.2 billion, which makes the company the latest cybersecurity unicorn. The funding, which brings the total raised by the firm to $350 million, was led by Blackstone Growth, with participation from existing investors. Vectra ..
Apple’s latest macOS updates patch three vulnerabilities that can be exploited to bypass security mechanisms, including one that has been exploited in the wild and one that impacts only Macs powered by the M1 chip. It was reported earlier this week that one of the security holes patched in macOS Big Sur and Catalina (CVE-2021–30657) ..
The FluBot Android malware is spreading fast across Europe using an SMS package delivery scheme and it’s soon expected to arrive in the United States as well, cybersecurity company Proofpoint warned this week. Initially observed in Spain, FluBot has since expanded operations to reach Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and the UK as well, with tens ..
Cisco this week released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software, including high-severity issues that could be exploited for arbitrary command execution or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-1448 and having a CVSS score of 7.8, the command injection bug is mitigated by the fact that authentication and local access are required ..
