Detection and response solutions provider Stellar Cyber on Tuesday announced that it has raised $38 million in Series B funding. To date, the company has raised over $68 million.
CISA Releases Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks
In response to an executive order signed by President Biden in May, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released two cybersecurity playbooks focusing on incident response and vulnerability response.
UK Orders National Security Review of NVIDIA Deal to Buy Arm
American technology company NVIDIA’s planned $40 billion takeover of British chip designer Arm Ltd. faces months of delays after the U.K. government asked competition regulators Tuesday to investigate the national security implications of the deal.
Chrome 96 Plugs High-Risk Browser Flaws
Google this week announced the availability of Chrome 96 in the stable channel with fixes for 25 security flaws, including 18 bugs reported by external security researchers.
Mandiant Attributes Ghostwriter APT Attacks to Belarus
The Belarusian government is at least partially responsible for the Ghostwriter disinformation campaign, according to security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team.
Blacksmith: Rowhammer Fuzzer Bypasses Existing Protections
A group of security researchers devised a new attack that completely bypasses the existing mitigations against the Rowhammer vulnerability in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips.
Hackers Targeted Afghan Officials on Facebook Amid Taliban Offensive
Facebook revealed Tuesday it had worked to block a hacker group that targeted the accounts of people tied to Afghanistan’s then-government and security forces as the Taliban was moving in to take power.
FBI Hacker Offers to Sell Data Allegedly Stolen in Robinhood Breach
The hacker who last week sent out thousands of fake emails from FBI systems is offering to sell data allegedly stolen in the recent breach at mobile stock trading platform Robinhood.
GitHub Confirms Another Major NPM Security Defect
Microsoft-owned GitHub is again flagging major security problems in the npm registry, warning that a pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities continue to expose the soft underbelly of the open-source software supply chain.
