by RJ Shara | Nov 12, 2020 | Startups
Menlo Security, a malware and phishing avoidance startup, announced a $100 million Series E today on an $800 million valuation. The round was led by Vista Equity Partners with assistance from Neuberger Berman, General Catalyst, JP Morgan and other unnamed existing investors. The business has now raised roughly $250 million. CEO and co-founder Amir Ben-Efraim […] , a malware and phishing avoidance startup, announced a $100 million Series E today on an$800 million valuation. With an evaluation of $800 million, he’s proud having constructed his business from the ground up to this point. …
by RJ Shara | Sep 15, 2020 | Startups
Let’s face it, email security is something a lot of individuals would rather believe less about. When you’re not deluged with an everyday assault of phishing attacks trying to steal your passwords, you’re also expected to evade the simulated phishing emails sent by your own business all for the sake of checking a compliance box. […] One security startup wants that to alter. HacWare’s technique to email security appears to be working.”We think that cyber security is an integrated method,” said Ricks. …
by RJ Shara | Aug 4, 2020 | Startups
A 17-year-old Florida teen is implicated of committing among the year’s biggest and most prominent hacks: Twitter. A federal 30-count indictment submitted in Tampa said Graham Ivan Clark utilized a phone spearphishing attack to pivot through multiple layers of Twitter’s security and bypassed its two-factor authentication to get to an internal “admin” tool […] In the teen’s defense, the attack might have been much worse. Rather of pushing a fraud that guaranteed to”double your money,”Clark and his compatriots could have wreaked havoc. With control of some of the world’s most popular Twitter accounts, Clark was for a few hours in July one of the most powerful effective individuals the world. If found guilty, the teenager could invest his better years behind bars….
by RJ Shara | Jun 4, 2020 | Startups
Anti-phishing startup Inky has actually raised $20 million in its Series B round of funding, led by Insight Partners. The financing will assist the company push for greater enterprise adoption and broaden to global markets, consisting of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Dark began a decade ago with a vibrant objective to transform e-mail with its […] These attacks rely on deceiving users into thinking an e-mail is real and turning over personal info or passwords. Inky’s innovation works by hooking into existing e-mail systems, like Exchange, Workplace 365 and G-Suite and informing users if an incoming email looks safe, uncommon or malicious. …
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