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Shares of these six cybersecurity stocks are up about 15% this year, on average. Yet they are down about 25% over the past 12 months.

Shares of these six cybersecurity stocks are up about 15% this year, on average. Yet they are down about 25% over the past 12 months.

Security firm’s report shows states might be inadvertently helping Chinese-owned app collect data

Jan. 12, 2021 10:59 pm ET A breach at email security provider Mimecast Inc. underscores that Russia-linked hackers appear to have targeted victims along multiple avenues of attack in what is shaping up to be one of the most successful cyber campaigns of U.S. government and corporate systems. The attack potentially adds thousands of victims to the yearslong intelligence operation and likely aimed at gaining access to email systems, security experts say. Mimecast, in a Tuesday blog post,...

Analysts say cyber-security stocks’ gains can continue. Dreamstime Security stocks had a huge run in 2020, with an extra boost from the end-of-the-year revelation of the “Sunburst” hack attack on software company SolarWinds that left almost 18,000 of their customers vulnerable. Analysts see further gains ahead in 2021, as the attack drives some companies to prioritize spending on detection, preventing and addressing cyber-security issues. Wall Street has been ratcheting up ...

The attack that may have exposed 18,000 SolarWinds’ customers also brought a lot of attention to the importance of cybersecurity. That had Wall Street analysts revising their views of the industry and the stocks.

Engaged Capital initiated a 9.96% position in the health-care, administrative-services tech firm, equal to 8,553,155 Evolent Health shares. That position has remained unchanged, as noted by Engaged Capital’s latest disclosure. What has changed is that Engaged and Evolent entered into a cooperation agreement as of Dec. 21. Per the agreement, Evolent will increase the size of its board by one to accommodate the appointment of an Engaged representative to serve until at least next year’s annua...

Order Reprints Text size SolarWinds has said close to 18,000 organizations could have been affected by malware inserted within updates to its Orion software. Bronte Wittpenn/Bloomberg SolarWindsissued a security advisory providing detailed information on steps customers should take in response to the continuing attack on the company’s widely used Orion IT management system—and confirming that two separate pieces of malware are now corrupting some installations. The c...