BalkanID, a Texas startup building technology in the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) space, has added $2.3 million to its seed financing round, bringing the total raised to $8.1 million.
Google Open Sources ‘Paranoid’ Crypto Testing Library
Google has officially announced the open sourcing of ‘Paranoid’, a project for identifying well-known weaknesses in cryptographic artifacts.
Cosmetics Giant Sephora Settles Customer Data Privacy Suit
Sephora Inc., one of the world’s largest cosmetics retailers, has settled a lawsuit claiming that the company sold customer information without proper notice in violation of the California’s landmark consumer privacy law, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday.
Twilio, Cloudflare Attacked as Part of Campaign That Hit Over 130 Organizations
The attacks disclosed recently by Twilio and Cloudflare were part of a massive phishing campaign that targeted at least 130 other organizations, according to cybersecurity company Group-IB.
Mozilla Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Firefox, Thunderbird
Mozilla this week patched several high-severity vulnerabilities in its Firefox and Thunderbird products.
Firefox 104 — as well as Firefox ESR 91.13 and 102.2 — patches a high-severity address bar spoofing issue related to XSLT error handling. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-38472, could be exploited for phishing.
How Economic Changes and Crypto’s Rise Are Fueling the use of “Cyber Mules”
The rise of cryptocurrency has ushered in a new era of money laundering
Musk Lawyers Seize on Twitter Whistleblower Revelations
Elon Musk’s lawyers jumped Wednesday on the revelations of a Twitter whistleblower to try to force the platform to surrender vast amounts of information for their fight to cancel the billionaire’s buyout bid.
Microsoft Details New Post-Compromise Malware Used by Russian Cyberspies
Microsoft this week published technical details on ‘MagicWeb’, a new post-exploitation tool used by Russia-linked cyberespionage group APT29.
Privacy Activists Target Google Over French ‘Spam’ Emails
Google is breaking EU law by sending users of its email service Gmail direct advertising messages, activists said in a complaint sent to French regulators on Wednesday.
It is the latest in a long line of complaints filed by the activist group NOYB (None of Your Business), which has fought the tech giant for years on data privacy.
New Air Gap-Jumping Attack Uses Ultrasonic Tones and Smartphone Gyroscope
A researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel has shown how a threat actor could stealthily exfiltrate data from air-gapped computers using ultrasonic tones and smartphone gyroscopes.
