CEO says thousands of mostly smaller businesses hit by likely Russian hackers, who are demanding sums between $45,000 and $5 million to unscramble data, according to expert

In one of the broadest such hack campaigns on record, thousands of companies in 17 countries hit by demands that they pay up in order to get their systems working again

The half-year figure exceeds the record-breaking $2.9 billion in investments for all of 2020; seven out of Israel's 13 cybersecurity unicorns were created in first half of 2021

Company raises $1.2 billion on first day of trading, touted as the largest ever by a cybersecurity firm

Calcalist: Cybersecurity firm boosts price range for NYSE IPO to between $31-$32 per share

Funding is at valuation of $2.2 billion for 7-year old biometric-authentication firm; deal is 'largest A round in cybersecurity history,' company says

Founded in 2013, SentinelOne's AI-based software aims to protect laptops and cellphones from security breaches by flagging unusual behavior in enterprise networks

The new funds will be used to speed up sale of the company's software, which protects factories and industrial plants from virtual attacks

Check Point Software Technologies says vulnerability in graph-making tool is part of legacy code and has been around for years; urge users to update software to fix

Announcement of the new group, set up in cooperation with the Israel National Cyber Directorate, comes at the GISEC Global 2021 Cyber Security Expo in Dubai