ThreatStream, a cybersecurity firm based in Redwood City, CA, announced $22M in Series B funding today to continue their efforts to help organizations fight cybersecurity threats.
But two days earlier, a separate group of cybersecurity researchers based in San Francisco quietly took down another botnet using more technical means.
See article.Kaspersky Lab, a cybersecurity firm based in Moscow, reported that a criminal gang with members from Russia, China and Ukraine had hacked into bank systems in 30 countries and stolen up to $1 billion.
In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Chris Doggett of Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity firm based in Moscow, explained how his company was called in by a large financial-services firm to double-check its network security.
"There are some stark differences between the United States and China when it comes to surveillance, transparency, and the rule of law, particularly as it relates to access to information requests," said Greg Walton, an Internet specialist formerly at the University of Toronto, now a cybersecurity consultant based in India.
Finally, regardless of whether it is a case of a production or research honeypot, the honeypot operator might have a legal duty to share information about cybersecurity incidents based on, for example, the NIS Directive.
A cybersecurity startup based in Hod Hasharon, Israel, Karamba Security, has raised $2.5 million in new Series A funding to protect internet-connected cars and self-driving vehicles from hackers.
Illusive Networks, a cybersecurity startup based out of Israel that protects networks by building "deception" frameworks to identify and trap malicious hackers, is today announcing that it has added Microsoft Ventures — the software giant's young investment arm — as its newest strategic investor.
A second report by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company based in Austin, Texas, focused on which groups were targeted and how.
"Data is more valuable than ever, and trading it is so profitable that it makes companies take enormous risks when handling data of the users on their platforms," said Laura Kankaala, a security researcher at F-Secure, a cybersecurity company based in Helsinki, Finland.
