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DynaRisk announced an extension of their seed funding round, bringing total funding to over $3m. This round of funding was led by Nexus Investments with participation from existing investors Insurance Capital Partners and Jonathan Marland. DynaRisk traverses 2 of the 4 areas of Nexus's investment focus and expertise: Data & Digital says Matthew O'Kane, Managing Director of Nexus Investments.
Databricks announced a $1 billion investment in response to the rapid global adoption of its unified data platform. "We see this investment and our continued rapid growth as further validation of our vision for a simple, open and unified data platform that can support all data-driven use cases, from BI to AI," said Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-Founder of Databricks.
O'Callaghan brings more than 25 years of portfolio engineering and services leadership experience to ConvergeOne. Most recently, Eugene held the role of SVP and Offering General Manager of Cloud and Platform Services at DXC Technology, with general management responsibility for sales and partnerships, portfolio management and engineering.
CyberMDX announced the appointment of industry veteran Azi Cohen as CEO of the company to build on record 300% YoY growth in revenue. A veteran of the IT and cybersecurity industries for more than 25 years, Azi Cohen joins CyberMDX from WhiteSource Software, a global leader in open source security software, where he was the Co-founder & SVP Global Sales and successfully built the customer base to over 1,000 clients worldwide.
The FBI has discovered that the National Finance Center, a U.S. Department of Agriculture federal payroll agency, was compromised by exploiting a SolarWinds Orion software flaw, according to a Reuters report. NFC provides human resources and payroll services to roughly 170 federal agencies and over 650,000 federal employees since 1973.
The TrickBot trojan is continuing its bounce-back from an autumn takedown, recently adding a network-scanning module that uses the Masscan open-source tool to look for open ports. The TrickBot module that uses it, dubbed "Masrv," is likely used for network reconnaissance, according to researchers at Kryptos Logic.
The Babyk ransomware operation has launched a new data leak site used to publish victim's stolen data as part of a double extortion strategy. In 2019, the Maze ransomware operation introduced a new double-extortion strategy of stealing unencrypted files and then threatening to publicly release them on data leak sites if a ransom is not paid.
Microsoft announced that Defender for Endpoint will now also help admins discover OS and software vulnerabilities affecting macOS devices on their organization's network. "This capability expansion enables organizations to discover, prioritize, and remediate both software and operating system vulnerabilities on devices running macOS," Microsoft Senior Product Manager Tomer Reisner said.
Embedded system software provider Wind River Systems has started informing employees of a data breach that resulted in their personal information being stolen by a third party. Its product portfolio includes the Wind River Linux operating system and the VxWorks real-time operating system.
Hundreds of investors in a fake cryptocurrency scam were bilked out of $11 million by John DeMarr, who advised them to invest in fake cryptocurrency "Bitcoiin," took their money and spent it on a Porsche, jewelry and upgrades to his home, a criminal complaint from the Department of Justice alleges. Actor Steven Seagal was hired to promote the company, also known as "Bitcoiin2Gen" or "B2G," and was ordered last year by the Securities and Exchange Commission to pay a $157,000 penalty, without admitting to any crimes.