AttackIQ, a cybersecurity company, has raised $8.8m in a series A round from investors including Qualcomm, Telstra, and Index Ventures. AttackIQ will use the funding to expand its sales and marketing initiatives, as well build out its strategic services and engineering teams. The company aims to bring continuous assurance to enterprise security teams and provide visibility through objective, data-driven decision making.

Outlaw Group Uses SSH Brute-Force to Deploy Cryptojacking Malware on Linux Servers
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed details about Outlaw, an “auto-propagating” cryptocurrency mining botnet that targets SSH servers with weak credentials. The Romanian-origin malware performs SSH brute-force