Tag: cyber

The United States Senate has confirmed Chris Inglis as the first-ever cyber czar for the US government.

US industrial cybersecurity company Claroty has raised $140m from a Series D funding round co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners’ Century II fund and 40 North Ventures.

Swiss cybersecurity analytics enterprise Threatray has raised €2.3m from a funding round led by Verve Ventures.

President Biden used a recent US-Russia bilateral meeting with President Putin to outline 16 infrastructure that should not be victim to cyberattacks in future.

US cybersecurity platform Elisity has snared $26m from a Series A funding round to meet growing demand of its cloud-delivered cybersecurity platform.

The G7 has called on Russia to take stronger action on ransomware attacks and cybercrime that has occurred within their borders.

Endpoint protection firm SentinelOne has claimed Chinese hackers were ‘likely’ behind a series of intrusions on Russian government agencies last year.

As the number of people using services online has ballooned over the last year due to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the threat posed by cybercriminals around the world has grown even stronger. How can companies and governments alike deal with this coming storm?

A Russian-speaking cybercriminal forum has hosted a contest for cybercriminals to provide methods for targeting cryptocurrency-related technology.

The Swedish Public Health Agency temporarily closed down the country’s infectious diseases database SmiNet following several hacking attempts.