Application monitoring and cybersecurity companies NetScout Systems Inc. and Dynatrace both reported quarterly earnings today and neither disappointed, with both beating analysts’ expectations in their most recent quarter. For its fiscal 2025 third quarter, Netscout reported adjusted earnings per share of 94 cents, up from 73 cents per share in the same quarter of the ...

A new study out today from venture capital firm Acrew Capital has found that cybersecurity startup exits now demand record-high revenue and funding. The finding comes from the Exit Escape Velocity for Cybersecurity Startup study, which found that the financial scale required for successful exits has increased dramatically over the past three decades. The report ...

Shares of Tesla Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading today after the electric car maker and energy company forecast a return to growth in 2025 despite falling short of expectations in its fourth quarter. Tesla reported adjusted earnings per share of 73 cents, up from 71 cents per share in the same quarter of the ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized the domain names of infamous hacking forums Cracked.io and Nulled.to in the latest crackdown on cybercrime. Although the FBI has released no statement on the seizures, visitors to the forums were presented with a banner stating that “this website has been seized” as part of “Operation Talent.” ...

A new report released today by Google LLC’s Threat Intelligence Group details how advanced persistence threat groups and coordinated information operations actors from countries such as China, Iran, Russia and North Korea are using generative artificial intelligence in their campaigns — but despite some headlines to the contrary, it’s not quite as bad as it could ...

Israeli cybersecurity firm CYE Ltd. announced today that it has acquired cloud security and infrastructure technology from adaptive cloud infrastructure security solutions startup Solvo for an undisclosed price. The deal sees CYE acquire Solvo’s technology for cloud security posture management and cloud infrastructure entitlement management. The technology will complement CYE’s Hyber platform by providing deep visibility into the ...

Unstructured-data management firm Komprise Inc. today announced new data detection and mitigation capabilities to help organizations prevent the leaking of personally identifiable information and other sensitive data to artificial intelligence and to reduce the risk of data breaches. With the announcement, the Komprise Smart Data Workflow Manager now includes detection for PII, as well as ...

X Inc., the company previously known as Twitter, announced today that it has signed a deal with Visa Inc. to become a founding partner for X Money Account, a new service that will provide a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments. X Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino said in a tweet that the new service, set to ...

Shares in F5 Inc. leaped more than 12% in late trading today after the application security firm reported strong earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2025 first quarter. For the quarter that ended on Dec. 31, F5 reported adjusted earnings per share of $3.84, up from $3.43 in the same quarter of the previous year, on revenue ...

A new report out today from anti-ransomware and cyber resilience platform provider Halcyon Tech Inc. details the increasingly sophisticated techniques used by the Arcus Media ransomware group. Not particularly well-known, Arcus Media first emerged in June and has been linked to ransomware attacks on companies, including DatAnalitica. The ransomware group uses the popular double extortion model ...