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Nation-state actors have a variety of extremely sophisticated means of getting into a system, of staying in a system, and when I say being quiet, being very hard to find, and then erasing their tracks. Then the hacker, since hackers are not really in the business of following up on their promises, will go and sell that data anyway.
Israel-based ecommerce fraud prevention company Riskified has announced the pricing of its initial public offering as it prepares to start trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange. Riskified is offering 17,300,000 Class A ordinary shares at $21 per share, which means the company is hoping to raise more than $360 million.
CybelAngel announced the most comprehensive Data Breach Prevention in the Cloud service, offering unmatched scanning capabilities, detecting data leaking from the top three Cloud storage providers, AWS S3 Buckets, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage. CybelAngel's announcement offers the opportunity to secure cloud infrastructures and monitor for data exposure better than ever before.
Signifyd announced the launch of its AI-powered Return Abuse Prevention solution, a customizable innovation that attacks a $43 billion problem by detecting return abuse and empowering merchants to provide friction-free refunds for valued customers while thwarting those seeking to game the system. Signifyd's Return Abuse Prevention solution gives merchants the flexibility to customize their return-abuse response according to the unique needs of their businesses.
Security researchers with threat intelligence firm Gemini Advisory say they have observed dark web activities related to bypassing 3D Secure, which is designed to improve the security of online credit and debit card transactions. Gemini's security researchers say that vulnerabilities in earlier versions of 3DS could have been exploited to bypass security.
Arcserve unveiled Arcserve Unified Data Protection 8.0, which is designed to protect organizations' entire infrastructure, including hyperconverged, from data loss, cybercriminals, and persistent threats like ransomware. This makes Arcserve the only data protection vendor capable of delivering ransomware prevention across hardware, cloud, SaaS, and other environments.
Sonrai Security announced significant new functionality designed to automate prevention of data breaches in public cloud deployments for its Sonrai Dig platform. Supporting leading public cloud databases in combination with advanced behavioral modeling and automated blocking, the newly enhanced service helps ensure critical corporate data is secure wherever it resides in cloud environments.
Employees commonly and inadvertently compromise company data through poor password hygiene, accidental data sharing, improper technology use, phishing scams, and more. Some employees will also act maliciously, intentionally stealing company data for profit, retribution, or fun.
Equifax on Friday announced plans to shell out $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that sells e-commerce retail fraud protection. The Atlanta, Ga.-based Equifax said the deal would expand its worldwide footprint in digital identity and fraud prevention solutions.
Group-IB has revealed the results of its yearslong development of proprietary high-tech products for threat hunting and research - Threat Intelligence & Attribution and Threat Hunting Framework. The creation of TI&A marks the emergence of a new type of solutions for collecting data on threats and attackers relevant for a particular organization with the aim of examination and proactive hunting for threat actors, research, and protection of network infrastructure.