Ent, an intent-aware workspace security company, has emerged from stealth with $100m in seed financing, aiming to shift the cybersecurity industry’s focus from reaction to prevention in an era of AI-accelerated attacks. The round was led by Decibel, with participation from Sequoia, Crosspoint Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Shield Capital, Felicis, and In-Q-Tel (IQT). Ent’s platform...Read More
In early June 2026, Cisco and NetApp expanded their long-running FlexPod and Splunk collaborations to offer validated AI infrastructure solutions and a new SOAR playbook that ties NetApp ONTAP storage directly into automated ransomware response workflows. This combination of AI-ready converged infrastructure and storage-level cyber defense could make NetApp’s platforms more central to customers’ data,...Read More
SINGAPORE – INTERPOL’s 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report has revealed a dramatic increase in cybercrime across the region driven by rapid digitalization, new technologies and increasingly organized criminal networks. The report, covering the period from January 2024 to March 2025, found that more than half of the countries surveyed reported cybercrime now...Read More
A cyber extortion group claimed on Tuesday (Jun 16) to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk and said it is exploring selling parts of the data after unsuccessfully demanding US$25 million from the company. FulcrumSec, a cyber extortion group that emerged in October 2025, said in a long...Read More
Executive Summary On 10 June 2026, a ransomware attack attributed to the The Gentlemen group disrupted operations at two mills operated by Mackay Sugar, Australia’s second-largest sugar producer. The incident halted sugar milling and cane haulage at the Farleigh and Racecourse mills, impacting over 1,300 family-owned farms and the regional supply chain. The attack occurred at...Read More
The Conti ransomware group became quite popular a few years ago due to its frequent and damaging incidents against healthcare organizations, governments, and companies. Emerging from the Ryuk gang and closely linked to the TrickBot malware and botnet operation, it gave its last throes in 2022 due to increased law enforcement pressure on the group...Read More
The FBI, Google, and Lumen Technologies say they’ve dismantled a China-based phishing-as-a-service operation called Outsider Enterprise, seizing its servers and payment wallets, and instigating a civil lawsuit. Sold through a Telegram bot for as little as $88 per week, the kit allowed buyers to spin up fake bank, toll, and delivery pages in minutes, with...Read More
Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the data posted by the hacking group. FulcrumSec also did not immediately respond to a request for comment [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS A cyber extortion group claimed on Tuesday to have stolen more than a terabyte of data from pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk and said it...Read More
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) organized the eighth edition of the Cyber Europe 2026 exercise that took place on June 10-11, bringing together stakeholders across Europe to strengthen cyber preparedness, enhance coordinated incident response, and ensure the continuity of essential services amid cyber threats targeting the continent’s rail and maritime networks. The two-day exercise...Read More
By expanding their collaboration with the new NetApp Splunk Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) playbook, NetApp and Splunk are helping joint customers contain ransomware attacks and limit data loss at the storage layer, enhancing the containment of the blast radius of cyberattacks while increasing the speed and reducing the cost of recovery. NetApp®, the...Read More
