<ul><li>Yahoo has laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team, known as The Paranoids, over the past year.</li><li>40 to 50 people from the cybersecurity team have been laid off or lost due to attrition since the start of 2024.</li><li>The red team, responsible for conducting cyberattack simulations, was completely eliminated.</li><li>Yahoo confirmed the layoffs and stated that offensive security operations will be transitioned to an outsourced model.</li></ul>

Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO

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