Material Security has closed a $100 million funding round on a $1.1 billion valuation to extend its protection of sensitive content at rest beyond email. The startup will take patents for defending content in old emails and apply them to SaaS applications such as Dropbox, Google Drive and Slack.
Abnormal Security has closed a $210 million funding round on a $4 billion valuation to apply its account takeover prevention technology to areas other than email. The company wants to use its AI to protect accounts across systems and SaaS platforms and in environments such as Workday and Salesforce.
Email is your most essential business tool—and today’s top malware delivery vector. This vital communications channel has become fertile ground for today's most damaging cyber threats and all kinds of fraud. Because email threats inherently target people, an effective cybersecurity program focuses on people first....
Transform attackers' favorite targets into your best defense
More than ever, attacks seek to exploit human vulnerabilities, not just technical flaws. In most cases, they do it through email. But you can transform every potential victim into a defensive choke point by making email reporting and remediation key parts...
Today’s sophisticated cyberattacks combine multiple tactics that include social engineering, zero-day malware and 3rd party OAuth app abuse. Threat actors employ tactics across email, cloud and web that target specific people in your organization to breach your environment and access sensitive data. Hybrid work...
The recent drop in stock prices has presented private equity firms with a golden opportunity to acquire fast-growing public cybersecurity companies without breaking the bank. Financial buyers have taken advantage, scooping up five of the less than 30 public pure-play cybersecurity vendors.
Skyrocketing attack rates, double and triple extortion, increasing ransom demands… cybercriminals are inflicting pain in every way imaginable when it comes to today’s ransomware attacks. And you need to be prepared to protect your network, NOW.
Find out the steps you need to take to minimize damage to your...
In our latest report, we detail seven primary cyber threats that organizations across the financial services sector will face in 2022. Some of them, such as ransomware, are not new but nevertheless remain a serious threat. Others, such as decentralized finance (DeFi) and cryptocurrencies, are newer, so to speak, and...
A data breach involving email marketing firm Mailchimp has affected customers of cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Trezor, which launched an investigation after its customers received phishing emails containing their Trezor email addresses. Mailchimp says it learned of the breach on March 26.
Researchers from Malwarebytes have found that cyberespionage actor UAC-0056, also known as SaintBear, UNC2589 and TA471, is now using a macro-embedded Excel document to target several entities in Ukraine, including ICTV, a private TV channel.
The scary fact is that the majority of data breaches are caused by human error. With so many technical controls in place hackers are still getting through to your end users. How are they so easily manipulated into giving the cybercriminals what they want? Well, hackers are crafty. And the best way to beat them is to...
As Western cybersecurity officials warn that Russia's Ukraine invasion poses an elevated cybersecurity risk to all, kudos to Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity for offering free endpoint security and other defenses to the healthcare sector and power sectors, for at least four months.
A phishing campaign, likely carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor, is targeting European government personnel who are aiding Ukrainian refugees, Proofpoint says. The TTPs in the campaign resemble those of Ghostwriter, a group that was the subject of a Ukrainian CERT warning on Feb. 25.
Your secure email gateway (SEG) never stood a chance. Socially-engineered attacks are the largest security threat, and with the rise of modern attacks like supply chain compromise, executive impersonation, and account takeover, it’s become obvious that the SEG no longer works. These traditional solutions simply...
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