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Liberty Strategic Capital nabs majority stake in mobile security startup Zimperium for $525M

TechCrunch

In fact, last year the company discovered spyware called PhoneSpy in 23 Android apps designed to steal data. Its last round was in 2018, a modest $12 million investment led by Sierra Ventures. The company covers three parts of the mobile market looking at device security, mobile applications security and mobile threat intelligence.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. When The New York Times was hacked by China in 2012, that was phishing.

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A Look at the 5 Most Common Types of Cyberattacks

Tenable

Malware: This catch-all term encompasses a number of different cybersecurity threats, including everything from viruses and worms to banking trojans, adware, spyware and ransomware. Kaspersky, "Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2019: overview and predictions," November 2018

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What the Cybersecurity Industry Needs to Discuss at the RSA Conference 2020

Palo Alto Networks

New forms of “stalkerware,” a type of spyware, tracks smartphone data from victims to build up a picture of their activities; this can be used to create faked videos, voice recordings or written communications. These are part of a family of vulnerabilities, revealed in 2018, that affect nearly every computer chip made over the past 20 years.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Schools Suffer Heavy Downtime Losses Due To Ransomware, as Banks Grapple with AI Challenges

Tenable

educational institutions between 2018 and this year. The 491 ransomware attacks analyzed between 2018 and 2024 affected about 8,000 schools and colleges The average ransom demanded was $1.4 Dive into six things that are top of mind for the week ending August 30. days, up from almost 9 days in 2021. billion and involved the breach of 6.7

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Improving IT Security in a World Filled With Hackers

Samanage

In fact, by the midpoint of 2018, the IT Governance Blog reported that there had already been more than 600 data breaches that year. It is almost impossible to stay plugged in and go a day without catching a headline about another hacking or data breach, making its way into the news. Creating a Secure IT Platform for Employees.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

Tenable

released in 2018, include an expanded scope beyond critical infrastructure; stronger emphasis on governance; and more guidance, tools and resources to facilitate its implementation. After a years-long revision process, NIST this week rolled out version 2.0 It’s the first major update to the CSF since version 1.0 came out in 2014.