Zero Trust

Quantum computing company IonQ has agreed to acquire Elisity, an enterprise Zero Trust security firm, in an all-stock transaction valued at up to 1.3 billion dollars. The deal, announced Monday, includes up to 150 million dollars in earnout payments tied to the performance of the Elisity business after closing.

The FBI and the Department of Justice announced October 8 that they have seized seven domains and disrupted two hacking tools tied to Flax Typhoon, the China-linked threat group U.S. authorities associate with Integrity Technology Group, a Beijing-based information-security company Washington says holds contracts with the Chinese government. The operation targeted reconnaissance and spear-phishing infrastructure that prosecutors say was used to scan — and in some cases infiltrate — critical infrastructure networks in the United States and abroad.