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Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm, published an analysis Tuesday laying out evidence that North Korean hackers — the same group, known as Lazarus, blamed for the infamous hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014 — were systematically targeting and plundering South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges.

• Tenable, the cybersecurity firm, has hired Morgan Stanley to lead an IPO coming as soon as this fall, Reuters reports citing sources.

Cybersecurity firm Check Point Software (chkp) uncovered a malware app called Adylkuzz spreading across the web starting around the same time as the WannaCry ransomware app and using some of the same stolen - from - the - NSA methods.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

Friday's cyberattack in more than 150 countries has reminded the world it's important to get the basics of online security right, a chief executive officer of a cybersecurity firm told CNBC.

The Seattle - based cybersecurity firm found major security flaws in industrial models sold by Universal Robots, a division of U.S. technology company Teradyne Inc..

During that tournament, Brazil saw almost 90,000 attacks in a 30 - day period, according to cybersecurity firm Cytegic.

On Tuesday, the cybersecurity firm made technical details of the hacks public.

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab, reacting to a U.S. government move restricting its activities, said on Wednesday it had fallen victim to U.S. - Russia global sparring while the Kremlin criticized the U.S. action as politically - motivated.

Equifax released the new estimate on Monday, a day after Mandiant, the computer forensics division of the cybersecurity firm FireEye (feye) that Equifax hired, completed its full review of the damage.

It is now more than three years since the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said the gang had stolen $ 1 billion.

Take, for example, cybersecurity firms Rapid7, LogRhythm, and Mimecast — all of which plan to go public later this year with valuations exceeding $ 1 billion.

The company said it is now reviewing and bolstering its security posture with help from an unnamed cybersecurity firm.

Beyond Sequoia, cybersecurity firms of late have been seeing marked investor interest.

A cybersecurity firm found software appearing to install code for mining cryptocurrency and sending coins to a North Korean university.

Researchers from the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks (panw) said on Wednesday that they discovered new malware that can infect Apple iOS devices even if they aren't jailbroken.

Greg Martin, CEO of the cybersecurity firm JASK, described EternalBlue as «a universal skeleton key.»

Though Check Point was first to call attention to the threat, the honor of first discovery goes to Qihoo 360, a Chinese cybersecurity firm.

But for cybersecurity firms and companies offering cyber-insurance, the year has been great.

«When I heard the team [at Tanium] was looking to expand the board, I really went for it in terms of pursuing it as an opportunity,» said Chadwick, who five years ago joined the board of F5 Networks (ffiv), a public cybersecurity firm that provides software to data centers.

The cybersecurity firm FireEye told The Financial Times that rather than encrypting files, Petya holds the entire system hostage until a ransom has been paid.

Ahern earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Vermont and with help from an unnamed angel investor who «bet on people heading in the right direction» started a company in 2002 — Industrial Defender, a cybersecurity firm that protects industrial control systems for the electrical grid, oil and gas, and chemical companies — which Lockheed Martin acquired in 2014.

Hackers stole the personal financial information from more than 5 million customers who visited the stores from May 2017 to now, according to Gemini Advisory, a cybersecurity firm.

The details released Friday confirms only some of the information published weeks ago by Gemini Advisory LLC, a cybersecurity firm that detected the breach after it noticed an influx of stolen credit and debit card information for sale.

Two independent cybersecurity firms had already reported separately that the Russian hacking group known variously as Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm and APT 28 (or Advanced Persistent Threat 28), appeared to be targeting the Macron campaign.

For the past few weeks, people have been tricked into visiting a phony website embedded with malware that can freeze Apple computers, according to a report this week by the cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes.

The AP did its own triage, dedicating two months and a small team of reporters to go through a hit list of Fancy Bear targets provided by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks.

With threat concerns at an all - time high, a Russian cybersecurity firm's investigation uncovered a large scale financial hack attack.

For the past year, researchers at iSight Partners, a cybersecurity firm in Dallas, have been tracking a new form of malware, dubbed ModPOS, that attacks point of sale, or POS, machines at the kernel.

In a troubling report released this week, global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab found that, since 2013, there has been an ongoing infiltration of over 100 banks and financial institutions in 30 different countries.

«The No. 1 thing is to make backups» of critical files, said Nate Villeneuve, a principle threat intelligence analyst at FireEye, a cybersecurity firm in Milpitas, California.

Other cybersecurity firms that have sprouted unicorn horns include Tanium ($ 3.75 billion valuation, according to the latest Pitchbook data), Illumio ($ 1.18 billion), and CrowdStrike ($ 1.02 billion).

Earlier that year, in July 2015, Splunk completed a $ 190 million acquisition of Caspida, a cybersecurity firm that sold user behavior analytics tools, which parse large data sets for patterns and anomalies.

Hotel rooms in 166 countries and 40,000 locations could potentially be unlocked and opened by hackers by exploiting a flaw in the electronic key software created by Assa Abloy, formerly known as VingCard, cybersecurity firm F - Secure warned on Wednesday.

Alex McGeorge, a senior security researcher at the cybersecurity firm Immunity Inc., agreed that the leak was most likely a «careless» mistake.

«We are working with a leading cybersecurity firm to further evaluate the integrity of our information systems.»

But the exposed database combined people's personal information and political inclinations — including proprietary information gathered via predictive modeling tools — to create a detailed profile of nearly 200 million Americans that would be a «gold mine» for anyone looking to target and manipulate voters, said Archie Agarwal, the founder of the cybersecurity firm ThreatModeler.

FireEye learned of the hacks by examining roughly 400 GB of corporate data that was leaked when hackers breached the cybersecurity firm Hacking Team.

Hackers who breached cybersecurity firm Hacking Team earlier this month exposed a trove of sensitive emails detailing the inner workings of the company's clients: Government spy agencies.

According to cybersecurity firm Kromtech, the database contained information such as full names, home addresses, email addresses, encrypted passwords, wallet information, and scanned passports, driver's licenses, or IDs.

Before the acquisition, Uber hired a cybersecurity firm Stroz Friedberg to do due diligence on Otto employees.

The WSJ says an investigation by FireEye's Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm, was underway by the time Uber broke the news to SoftBank Group.

«Internet of things» - focused cybersecurity firm ForeScout Inc. is going public.

We have also analyzed social media sentiment of around 8,400 current and former employees at 53 cybersecurity firms.

NEW YORK / BOSTON (Reuters)- Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are joining a growing list of cybersecurity firms planning to go public in 2015 to capitalize on investor interest following a spate of hacker attacks, according to people familiar with the matter.

Rapid7, LogRhythm and Mimecast are not the only cybersecurity firms planning to tap public markets this year.

The Equation Group is a code name that Kaspersky Labs, a Russian cybersecurity firm, has given to the N.S.A.

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems.

A Fairfax cybersecurity firm has been awarded a contract to develop an app that can detect health problems.

Michael T. Flynn, a Trump campaign adviser who went on to be his national security adviser, was paid more than $ 65,000 by companies linked to Russia in 2015, including an American branch of a cybersecurity firm believed to have connections to Russia's intelligence services, according to congressional investigators.