Cybersecurity

Scrut Automation secures $10 million in growth capital

Scrut Automation, GRC platform, has announced today that it secured $10 million in growth capital from its existing investors, including Lightspeed, MassMutual Ventures, and Endiya Partners. The funding will be utilized to enhance platform capabilities, integrate generative AI for risk and compliance teams’ efficiency, and expand into North American and European markets. With this latest […]

Cybersecurity

Darcula Phishing Network Leveraging RCS and iMessage to Evade Detection

A sophisticated phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called Darcula has set its sights on organizations in over 100 countries by leveraging a massive network of more than 20,000 counterfeit domains to help cyber criminals launch attacks at scale. “Using iMessage and RCS rather than SMS to send text messages has the side effect of bypassing SMS firewalls, […]

Cybersecurity

Anti-Fraud Project Boosts Security of African, Asian Financial Systems

A nonprofit has launched the first open source platform aimed at delivering sophisticated anti-fraud capabilities to financial systems in Africa as well as parts of Asia and the Middle East. The Tazama open source project is real-time financial transaction monitoring software that can be deployed by digital financial services providers to detect and block fraudulent […]

Cybersecurity

Tazama: Open-source real-time fraud management – Help Net Security

Tazama is an open-source platform focused on improving fraud management within digital payment systems. Tazama marks a substantial transformation in the approach to financial monitoring and compliance worldwide. Previously, the financial sector struggled with proprietary solutions that were both expensive and restrictive, impeding access and flexibility, particularly in developing economies. Tazama challenges this status quo […]

Cybersecurity

Tazama: Open-source real-time fraud management – Help Net Security

Tazama is an open-source platform focused on improving fraud management within digital payment systems. Tazama marks a substantial transformation in the approach to financial monitoring and compliance worldwide. Previously, the financial sector struggled with proprietary solutions that were both expensive and restrictive, impeding access and flexibility, particularly in developing economies. Tazama challenges this status quo […]

Cybersecurity

CrowdStrike to Buy Israeli Data Defense Vendor Flow Security

Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) , Data Loss Prevention (DLP) , Endpoint Security Data Security Posture Management Deal Will Help CrowdStrike Guard Endpoints, Clouds Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • March 5, 2024     CrowdStrike plans to purchase a data security posture management startup led by an Israeli Defense Forces team leader to safeguard information across […]

Cybersecurity

How to Use Tines’s SOC Automation Capability Matrix

Created by John Tuckner and the team at workflow and automation platform Tines, the SOC Automation Capability Matrix (SOC ACM) is a set of techniques designed to help security operations teams understand their automation capabilities and respond more effectively to incidents. A customizable, vendor-agnostic tool featuring lists of automation opportunities, it’s been shared and recommended […]