Mortgage company loanDepot experienced a cybersecurity incident on Monday (Jan. 8). In a cyber incident update posted on its website on Monday at 6 a.m. ET and remaining there at 6 p.m. ET, loanDepot said that in response to the incident, it has taken certain systems offline and is...
Cloud-native security provider Aqua Security has secured $60 million in funding in an extension of its Series E round, achieving a valuation above $1 billion. With this addition, the company has raised $325 million since its founding in 2015, Aqua Security said in a Wednesday (Jan....
Cybercriminals have shown over the past year that sophisticated technology is not always necessary to carry out successful cyberattacks. Several incidents in 2023 have highlighted the effectiveness of simple hacking techniques in breaching security, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (Dec. 27). One notable trend is the use of social...
In today’s digitized and hyper-fast world, cyberattacks and the threat of security breaches abound. So, what are treasury leaders and companies to do to both protect themselves and mitigate the fallout from the ever-evolving cyber threat environment? There is no easy, one-size-fits-all answer, and that’s...
The ongoing digital transformation of commerce and payments has radically reshaped the holiday shopping season. On the one hand, it has never been easier — or more streamlined and immediate — to find a great deal on the perfect gift. But with the surge in...
Fidelity National Financial (FNF) says a recent cyberattack has disrupted its operations. The company, which provides title insurance settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries, revealed the attack in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Tuesday (Nov. 21). The filing said FNF began an...
CrowdStrike made its artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity offering, Falcon Go, officially available on Amazon Business. This marks the first CrowdStrike offering on Amazon’s B2B store, providing a dedicated distribution channel for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to access protection against modern cyberthreats, the cybersecurity firm said...
A hacking group with reported ties to Russia has claimed credit for attacking ChatGPT. The reason? The generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s parent company’s support for Israel amid that country’s war against Hamas. The group, dubbed Anonymous Sudan, published a post on its Telegram page Wednesday (Nov....
A Russian-speaking hacking group reportedly accessed the email addresses of about 632,000 U.S. federal employees at the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice. The cyberattack, known as the MOVEit hack, happened May 28 and 29 and exploited vulnerabilities in the popular file-transfer tool MOVEit, Bloomberg reported Monday...
