Israeli citizens received threatening text messages purportedly from an Iranian-backed hacking team warning that it has hijacked the nation’s radar systems, stating: “You have only a few hours to fix the systems.” The so-called Handala threat group alleged in a message on Telegram that it sent 500,000 text message warnings to Israeli citizens, which contains […]
The Commerce Department has sanctioned several European, Israeli, Russian, and Singaporean companies involved in the trafficking and development of spyware tools used for repression and human rights abuses.
Israeli startup Vicarius, which develops an autonomous end-to-end vulnerability remediation platform, announced on Wednesday a $30 million Series B led by cybersecurity investment firm Bright Pixel Capital. AllegisCyber Capital, AlleyCorp, and Strait Capital all participated in the financing. The company’s total funding, including investments from previous investors such as JVP, is now over $56 million. […]
Aqua Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that helps companies protect their cloud services, has raised $60 million in funding, extending its previously announced $135 million Series E round of funding to $195 million. Founded in 2015, Tel Aviv- and Boston-based Aqua Security claims customers such as PayPal, Netflix and Samsung, which use the Aqua platform […]
Pro-Palestinian hackers say they breached dozens of Israeli entities amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which has also extended into cyberspace. A group calling itself Cyber Toufan said it launched an operation against Israel at the end of November, promising to publish leaked information from hacked websites every day throughout the month. Earlier this week, […]
Israeli cybersecurity startup Zero Networks, which provides zero trust identity and network security solutions, raised $20 million in Series B funding, bringing its total raised capital to $45 million. U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) led the round, with notable strategic investor Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of CrowdStrike, also participating. Existing investors Venrock, […]
Israeli startup Mine made a name for itself a few years ago with a tool designed for consumers to quickly run an audit of their data privacy situation. One scan of your inbox using AI and specifically natural language processing, and Mine can triangulate which companies have access to your personal data, and then let […]
Israeli AI-based cybersecurity company Dream Security has completed a $35 million financing round. The company was founded last year by former spyware company NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio, former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Gil Dolev, formerly of Adallom, NSO and the Prime Ministers Office. The financing round was led by existing investors Aleph, […]
An Israeli private investigator was sentenced in the Southern District of New York to nearly seven years in federal prison on Thursday on charges that he orchestrated a global hack-for-hire scheme. Aviram Azari pleaded guilty in April to wire fraud, conspiracy to commit hacking and aggravated identity theft for his role in coordinating hacking campaigns […]
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