Sequoia Capital has doubled down on its early-stage investment in Skiff, a startup building a security-themed, end-to-end encrypted workspace collaboration platform.
Skiff Banks $10.5M for E2E Encrypted Workplace Collaboration
Investors Bet on Cyberpion in Attack Surface Management Space
Attack surface management specialists Cyberpion has secured $27 million in early-stage funding to build technology that helps organizations manage exposure to risk.
Checkmarx Finds Threat Actor ‘Fully Automating’ NPM Supply Chain Attacks
Threat hunters at Checkmarx on Monday raised an alarm after discovering a threat actor fully automating the creation and delivery of “hundreds of malicious packages” into the NPM ecosystem.
MixMode Banks $45 Million in Series B Funding
Cyberattacks detection technology provider MixMode has announced the closing of a $45 million Series B funding round led by PSG, with participation from Entrada Ventures.
Theta Lake Raises $50 Million in Series B Funding Round
Theta Lake, a company that specializes in compliance and security solutions for collaboration platforms, on Wednesday announced raising $50 million in a Series B funding round.
Ransomware, Malware-as-a-Service Dominate Threat Landscape
Ransomware continues to expand with double-extortion now the standard; the malware-as-a-service model is now common; and criminals are increasingly ‘living off the land’, according to data from Red Canary.
Compliance Startup Trustero Emerges From Stealth With $8 Million in Funding
Trustero, a Palo Alto, California-based startup offering Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS) for enterprises, has emerged from stealth mode with $8 million in seed funding.
The investment round was led by Zetta Venture Partners, with participation from Engineering Capital and Vertex Ventures.
‘Secrets Sprawl’ Haunts Software Supply Chain Security
A cybersecurity startup is warning of a major, unattended weak link in the software supply chain: the vexing problem of valuable corporate secrets — API keys, usernames and passwords, and security certificates — publicly exposed in corporate repositories.
Italy Investigates Russia’s Kaspersky Antivirus Software
Italy’s data privacy watchdog said Friday it was investigating the “potential risks” that Russian antivirus software Kaspersky could be used to launch cyberattacks.
High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in BIND Server
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security updates to fix multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the widely deployed Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) server software.
