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    Fortinet Beats Q4 Profit on Cybersecurity Demand, Shares Jump

    2024-02-06

    US News: Fortinet reported fourth-quarter profit above analysts' estimates, as enterprises spent more to safeguard their digitized operations against the rising risk of attacks, sending the cybersecurity company's shares up 10.4% in extended trading.

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    ZeroFox Holdings To Be Acquired By Haveli Investments For About $350 Mln

    2024-02-06

    Nasdaq: ZeroFox Holdings, Inc., a provider of external cybersecurity, said it has agreed to be acquired by Haveli Investments, a technology-focused private equity firm, in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of about $350 million.

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    Britain, France Lead 35 Nation Agreement on Controlling Spyware, Mercenary Hackers

    2024-02-06

    US News: Countries led by Britain, France and the United States and tech firms including Google, Microsoft and Meta signed a joint statement recognising the need for more action to tackle malicious use of cyber spying tools.

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    Deepfake-Generating Apps Explode, Allowing Multimillion-Dollar Corporate Heists

    2024-02-05

    Dark Reading: Deepfake creation software is proliferating on the Dark Web, enabling scammers to carry out artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted financial fraud with previously unheard of creativity and scope.

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    US Disrupted Chinese Hacking Operation That Targeted Routers

    2024-01-31

    BNN Bloomberg: A US operation disrupted a Chinese state-sponsored hacking effort in which spies hijacked a large network of devices to target water facilities and the power grid, among other targets, officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice said. 

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    US Sanctions Two ISIS-Affiliated ‘Cybersecurity Experts’

    2024-01-31

    SecurityWeek: The sanctioned individuals are both Egyptian nationals. One of them is Mu’min Al-Mawji Mahmud Salim, the creator of a platform named Electronic Horizons Foundation (EHF), which provides cybersecurity training and guidance to ISIS supporters.

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    SolarWinds Files Motion to Dismiss SEC Lawsuit

    2024-01-29

    Dark Reading: In a new filing with the US Southern District Court of New York, SolarWinds argued that the Securities and Exchange Commission was outside of its depth of expertise as well as its scope of authority in charging SolarWinds and its chief information security officer with mishandling the now-infamous, 2020, Russian-backed cyber espionage attack on its Orion platform.

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    Canada Wakes Up To China, Russia, Iran Threat To Intellectual Property

    2024-01-29

    CSO Online: It is as if a light went on within the Canadian government this month as it took steps to tighten control over the risk presented by China, Russia, and Iran to sensitive research being funded by the federal government.

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    M|C Partners Makes Strategic Investment in Consortium Networks to Fuel Cybersecurity Growth

    2024-01-24

    PR Newswire: M|C Partners, a digital infrastructure and tech services private equity firm, has made a strategic growth investment in Consortium Networks, a national cybersecurity organization. 

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    Cybersecurity Automation Firm Torq Lands $42 Million In Expanded Series B

    2024-01-23

    TechCrunch: Torq, a self-described “hyperautomation” cybersecurity startup, today announced that it raised $42 million in an extension to its Series B funding round from investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, GGV Capital, Insight Partners, Greenfield Partners and Evolution Equity Partners.

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