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San Francisco, Calif (HQ) and Ramat Gan, Israel (R&D) threat prevention firm Preempt has raised $17.5 million in a Series B funding round supported by ClearSky, Blackstone, Intel Capital and General Catalyst. The total raised by Preempt now stands at $27.5 million, having raised $2 million as seed funding in 2014, and $8 million in a Series A round in 2016.

Encrypted email provider ProtonMail was hit by a significant distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that appears to have been carried out by a group linked to Russia.

France has joined the US and Russia in seeking the extradition of a Russian held in Greece for allegedly laundering $4 billion using the bitcoin digital currency, a court source said Wednesday.

DoublePulsar, one of the hacking tools the Shadow Brokers supposedly stole from the National Security Agency (NSA)-linked Equation Group, can now run on Windows Embedded devices.

Two cyberespionage campaigns targeting the Tibetan community based in India appear to be the work of Chinese threat actors, a new Recorded Future report reveals.

Cisco’s Talos team this week announced the availability of a free decryption tool to help victims of the Thanatos ransomware recover their files without paying the ransom.

Adults today have witnessed video stores becoming streaming services, book stores vanishing into cyberspace. Traditional, even beloved, consumer brands are being supplanted by digital replacements. Even interpersonal relationships now occur largely online.  

The UK government's Cabinet Office has published the first iteration of its Minimum Cyber Security Standard, which will be incorporated into the Government Functional Standard for Security. The standard is mandatory for all government departments (which includes 'organizations, agencies, Arm’s Length Bodies and contractors'); but provides an excellent security checklist/framework for all commercial organizations.

A Japanese hotel chain has apologised after more than 120,000 items of customer information were stolen in hacks of its reservations handled by French company Fastbooking.

Identity management solutions provider Ping Identity on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Elastic Beam, a company that specializes in detecting and blocking attacks aimed at application programming interfaces (APIs).

A file deletion vulnerability that remains unpatched 7 months after being reported allows for the complete takeover of WordPress sites and for arbitrary code execution.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill aimed at protecting industrial control systems (ICS), particularly ones used in critical infrastructure, against cyberattacks.

Cisco has informed users that a recently patched vulnerability affecting its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software has been exploited in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

A new report quantifies what every manager instinctively knows: private messaging within collaboration tools can hide worrying content sent between employees. This can include confidential and sensitive data inappropriately shared, password sharing, and even toxic sentiment that could harm workplace productivity or highlight a nascent insider threat.

A cyber espionage group that has remained undetected until recently, has been targeting South East Asia with two previously unknown malware families, according to Palo Alto Networks.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) this week announced STARTTLS Everywhere, a new project aimed at improving the security of email delivery.

Researchers discovered several vulnerabilities in Sophos SafeGuard full-disk and file encryption products. The flaws allow an attacker to escalate privileges on a compromised device and execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM permissions.

BigID, a company that specializes in helping organizations protect customer data and comply with privacy regulations, on Monday announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round.

Quantum Xchange Raises $10 Million, Launches Quantum Key Distribution Service

Eight individuals were arrested for their roles in a widespread, Africa-based business email compromise (BEC) conspiracy, the United States Department of Justice announced on Monday.