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U.S. chipmaker Nvidia has confirmed that it’s investigating a cyber incident that has reportedly downed the company’s developer tools and email systems.
Nvidia told TechCrunch in a statement that the nature and scope of the incident are still being evaluated, adding that the company’s commercial activities have not been...
Ukrainian cybersecurity officials have warned that Belarusian state-sponsored hackers are targeting the private email addresses of Ukrainian military personnel.
Announcing the activity in a Facebook post, Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) said that a mass phishing campaign is targeting the private i.ua and meta.ua accounts belonging to Ukrainian...
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is launching a new unit dedicated to tracking cryptocurrency crimes and ransomware profits.
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced the formation of the Virtual Asset Exploitation Team (VAXU) during a speech at the Munich Cyber Security Conference this week, saying the unit will...
The recent cyberattack on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which compromised the data of more than 515,000 “highly vulnerable” people, was likely the work of state-sponsored hackers.
In an update published on Wednesday, the ICRC confirmed that the initial intrusion dates back to November 9, 2021,...
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has called for a bloc-wide ban on the controversial Pegasus spyware tool, warning its use could lead to an “unprecedented level of intrusiveness.”
Israeli’s NSO Group, the developer of the notorious spyware, claims to only sell Pegasus to governments for the purpose of...
The BlackByte ransomware gang appears to have made a comeback after targeting at least three U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, according to an advisory from the FBI and the Secret Service.
BlackByte is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation that leases out its ransomware infrastructure to others in return for a percentage...
In the world of cybersecurity, you can’t secure something if you don’t know it’s there.
Enter cybersecurity asset management, an admittedly unsexy fragment of the booming industry that investors have shown an ever-increasing appetite for over the past 18 months.
The cybersecurity industry experienced what is being hailed by some...
A decryptor has been released for the Maze, Egregor, and Sekhmet ransomware families in yet another sign that cybercriminals are rattled by recent law enforcement action.
Maze was once considered one of the most active and notorious data-stealing ransomware groups. The gang, which began operating in May 2019, gained...
2021 may have been a rough year for cybersecurity, but it was a record-breaking year for security startups.
According to new data from Momentum Cyber, a financial advisory firm for the security industry, cybersecurity startups raised a “record-shattering” $29.5 billion in venture capital last year, more than doubling the...
Vicarius, a New York-based startup that has developed an autonomous vulnerability remediation platform, has raised $24 million in Series A funding to protect organizations from the next major supply-chain attack.
The current vulnerability remediation situation isn’t working, Vicarius tells TechCrunch. It’s a process split between two departments — security...
