Venture Spending in Cybersecurity During Q3 2022 Dropped to Lowest Level Since Q4 2020
Funding dropped 10% between Q2 22 and Q3 22, total number of deals climbed by 9% from Q2 22 to Q3 22, average deal value dropped by 21% from Q2 22 to Q3 22
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Marks and Spencer sends 200 workers home as cyberattack fallout worsens
Meta's AI digital companions do not protect underage users from sexually explicit banter, UK commissioner calls for ban on apps that create sexual images of children, SK Telecom plummets in wake of cyberattack, DeFi protocol Loopscale loses $5.8m in exploit, Juice-jacking mitigation found, much more
Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 4/19/25
How young hackers got caught after stealing a quarter of a billion in crypto, What Hegseth's SignalGate really teaches us, Why the US needs to protect transparent security research, All web browsers except Tor are insecure, The divergent cybercrime paths of Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran
DPRK spies launched two US businesses to spread malware among crypto workers
DPRK hackers used Russian internet infrastructure, Lazarus Group targeted multiple businesses in Operation SyncHole, DPRK workers use genAI for US and European jobs, Scattered Spider member extradited to US, Antitrust probe launched into TP-Link, FBI tracks down Nigerian sextortionists, much more
FBI: Online scams stole nearly $17 billion in 2024, up sharply from 2023 levels
Hijacked brokerage accounts in Japan juiced $710m in fraudulent trading since Feb., BreachForums reportedly rises again, New malware appears in apps Russian soldiers use, S. Korea says DeepSeek transferred user data w/o permission, Millions affected by Blue Shield CA 2021 breach, so much more