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      Cybersecurity Investors Bet Big on Early-Stage Startups

      2025-05-06

      Bank Info Security: Cybersecurity attracted $13 billion in investments in 2024, a 40% jump in funding compared to 2023, with nearly half going to early-stage startups.

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      Cybersecurity Firms Raise Over $1.7 Billion Ahead of RSA Conference 2025

      2025-04-29

      SecurityWeek: According to SecurityWeek’s analysis, more than 30 cybersecurity firms collectively raised more than $1.7 billion in funding in the month of April, underscoring the sector’s robust growth and investor confidence in cyber defense technologies.

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      DoJ Data Security Program Highlights Data-Sharing Challenges

      2025-04-28

      Dark Reading: In a sign of how pervasive data sharing has become, businesses may face challenges complying with a new government rule restricting data use outside the US.

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      Veza Banks $108 Million Series D at $808 Million Valuation

      2025-04-28

      SecurityWeek: The new financing includes equity stakes for existing backers Accel and GV (Google’s venture fund), True Ventures, Norwest, Ballistic Ventures, J.P. Morgan, and Blackstone Innovations Investments.

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      Coinbase Fixes 2FA Log Error Making People Think They Were Hacked

      2025-04-27

      Bleeping Computer: Coinbase has fixed a confusing bug in its account activity logs that caused users to think their credentials were compromised.

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      Cybersecurity Startup Chainguard Almost Triples Valuation To $3.5 Billion After Fundraise

      2025-04-24

      MSN/Reuters: Computer and cloud security startup Chainguard said its latest funding round valued it at $3.5 billion, almost tripling in less than a year, underscoring sustained investor appetite for robust digital infrastructure.

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      FBI: Cybercrime Losses Surpassed $16.6 Billion in 2024

      2025-04-24

      SecurityWeek: The reported losses increased 33% compared to 2023, but the number of complaints received by the IC3 was slightly lower in 2024, at nearly 860,000 (compared to over 880,000 the year before). 

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      Cynomi Cinches $37 Million for its AI-Based 'Virtual CISO' for SMB Cybersecurity

      2025-04-23

      Yahoo Finance: Small and medium businesses are the latest targets for cybersecurity attacks, with one in three small businesses experiencing a data breach last year.

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      Can Cybersecurity Weather the Current Economic Chaos?

      2025-04-21

      Dark Reading: As the Trump administration continues to pursue a chaotic tariff policy — announcing steep tariffs on the United States' major trading partners, only to pause most of the import taxes for 90 days — economists are increasingly predicting a recession in the next 12 months.

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      Bill Extends Cyber Threat Info-Sharing Between Public, Private Sector

      2025-04-16

      Cybersecurity Dive: Two federal lawmakers today introduced a bipartisan bill that preserves key regulation that facilitates the sharing of cyber-threat data between private companies and the federal government.

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