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ZDNet: In a report on 2021, the firm said 83 cybersecurity company capital raises surpassed $100 million. There were fourteen $1 billion mergers and acquisitions, including deals involving McAfee, Augh0, Mimecast, Thycotic, Proofpoint, and Avast.
BNN Bloomberg: Criminals netted $1.3 billion in ransom payments from hacking victims in the past two years, reflecting a massive surge in cybercrime that has prompted a global effort to stop it, according to a new report from Chainalysis Inc.
Coin Desk: "So far this morning, 94,643.29 bitcoins ($3.55 billion) have been moved in 23 transactions, from a wallet associated with a theft from Bitfinex in 2016, to a new address," blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said. These originate from a theft suffered by Bitfinex in 2016, the firm added.
Tech Radar: COVID-19 has presented a visceral, public, and clear lesson in risk management and response. This got me thinking about how our responses to the pandemic can inform our responses to cyber risk. What can we learn from our successes and mistakes to reduce the likelihood of a breach?
Help Net Security: As organizations look to embrace modern approaches to security in 2022, a strongDM survey has revealed that access management is one of the most crucial factors to achieving this goal.
Yahoo News: Cybercriminals laundered $8.6bn (£6.4bn) worth of cryptocurrency last year, a 30% increase compared to the previous year, new data has shown.
ZDNet: According to the 2021 Annual Data Breach Report published by the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) on Monday, the overall number of data compromises (1,862) is up more than 68% compared to 2020 (1,108). Out of the 1,862 compromises, 1,600 of those were cyberattacks.
Finextra: Based on data from eight years of working to assess cyber risk at hundreds of companies across many sectors in dozens of countries, it is clear that the financial sector is one of the best prepared for an attack, reflecting years of improvements and investment. But, although it only lagged behind the industrial, cyber and manufacturing sectors, the financial sector still has a lot of work to do, we found in our soon-to-published research.
Funds Europe: The cybersecurity megatrend is set to continue in 2022 as demand for cybersecurity solutions remain “relatively constant” after some “major hacks” in 2021, according to Christopher Gannatti, global head of research at WisdomTree.
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