In October, key tech investments included Microsoft spending $3.2bn in Australia for AI and cloud computing, while Censys secured $75m to further threat hunting and Exposure Management. Prove Identity raised $40m and fraud prevention firm Fingerprint raised $33m. There was also a higher number of tech acquisitions, the largest being Emerson’s $8.2bn purchase of software provider NI. Trustwave was sold for $205m and Versent for $267.5m, while security firm MNEMO Mexico and AI firm Nod.ai were acquired.

New Malware Loaders Use Call Stack Spoofing, GitHub C2, and .NET Reactor for Stealth
An updated version of a malware loader, known as Hijack Loader, has been discovered with new features aimed at evading detection and maintaining persistence. The