Data security platform startup Baffle Inc. today launched an updated version of its platform designed to automate data protection across an enterprise. Baffle Manager 2.0 seeks to address the issue wherein legacy application-level encryption is difficult and time-consuming to implement. With no code or application changes, Baffle cryptographically protects the data as it’s created, used and shared. ...

Apple Inc. device management platform startup Kandji Inc. today announced a new integration with identity access management company Okta Inc. to ensure Apple devices comply with access policies before allowing access to Okta-secured software-as-a-service applications. The integration seeks to address the rise of remote working wherein “any device is the new norm” when it comes to connecting to corporate ...

Privacy management software startup Osano Inc. today announced a new feature designed to automate the identification of vendors. Called the Osano Vendor Directory, the new feature addresses the issue where organizations need to identify vendors and build an inventory to manage vendor risk. The company argues that, typically, privacy professionals have had to identify vendors ...

Application security testing firm Checkmarx Ltd. and cybersecurity risk management firm Brinqa Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership to help organizations develop top-tier application security programs suitable for the evolving threat landscape. The partnership is aimed at addressing the increasing security risk of insecure code, which is a prominent source of data breaches. The companies argue that ...

The U.S. Department of Justice today announced the creation of a new litigation section that will focus on prosecuting malicious foreign cyber activity. Called the National Security Cyber Section, or NatSec Cyber for short, the new section was designed in response to the findings in Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco’s Comprehensive Cyber Review in July ...

Space security company True Anomaly Inc. has today unveiled two new solutions that provide robust environments for high-precision testing and operator training for cybersecurity in space. The new solutions, Digital Range application and On-Orbit Range, merge digital and live elements to offer a unique, comprehensive training and testing platform. The Digital Range application has been built for efficiency and ...

Researchers at S.C. Bitdefender SRL today warned of new custom malware actively targeting remote desktop protocol clients to steal data. First noticed in its use as part of a state-sponsored East Asian espionage operation called RedClouds, the server-side implant, dubbed “RDStealer,” monitors RDP connections with client drive mapping enabled, infecting connecting RDP clients with a Logutil backdoor and exfiltrating ...

Israeli phishing protection startup Ironscales Ltd. today announced the beta launch of a new artificial intelligence tool for Microsoft Outlook designed to empower end-users in threat detection and reporting. Called Themis Co-pilot, the new service is built upon PhishLLM, a proprietary large language model hosted within Ironscale’s infrastructure. Themis Co-pilot is designed to give end-users the necessary tools to ...

Microsoft Corp. disclosed Friday that outages that affected its customers earlier this month were caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack launched by a threat actor called Storm-1359. The Layer 7 DDoS attack affected Microsoft services, including Azure, Outlook and OneDrive. A “Layer 7” attack is a form of DDoS that targets the application layer of the internet ...

A Russian national has been arrested in Arizona on charges alleging that he was involved in multiple LockBit ransomware attacks against victims in the U.S., Asia, Europe and Africa. The LockBit ransomware gang, which first emerged in 2020, operates on a ransomware-as-a-service model where affiliates use already developed ransomware to execute attacks. In its time, LockBit ...