A new variant of Chameleon Android malware has been found in the wild with new features, notable among them the ability to bypass fingerprint locks. The Chameleon Android banking trojan first entered the scene in early 2023 with a primary focus on mobile banking applications in Australia and Poland but has since expanded into other ...

A new report from cybersecurity services company Group-IB Global Pvt. Ltd. is warning of a sharp increase in fake delivery sites in the weeks leading up to Christmas. In the first 10 days of December, Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team identified 587 fake postal resources, 34% higher than the last ten days of November. Since the beginning ...

Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC-backed artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks to raise $750 million in new funding on a valuation of $15 billion, according to a report from The Information and later a report from Bloomberg. The report claims that Menlo Ventures Management L.P. will lead the round. Although a valuation ...

The German Federal Criminal Police Office, with support from various international law enforcement agencies, has seized Kingdom Market, a dark web marketplace that was selling drugs, malware, stolen data and forged documents. Founded in 2021, Kingdom Market was primarily used to trade illegal narcotics. The site had over 42,000 listings as of the time it ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped nearly 2% in late trading today after the company missed estimates for its outlook, even though it reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal third quarter. For the quarter that ended Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported adjusted earnings per share of one cent, up from a loss of one cent ...

Internet of things security startup Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc. today announced that it has raised $27 million in new funding to expand its research and development and market outreach for its so-called Cyber-Physical Systems Protection Platform. Founded in 2017, Phosphorus offers what it calls a United xTended IoT Security Management platform for unified security and device management. With a ...

Private equity investments into startups in 2024 are predicted to see significant strategic shifts, including the rise of continuation funds, longer holding periods due to the challenging exit environment, and an increase in founder-owned company deals, according to the 2024 U.S. Private Equity Outlook report published today by PitchBook Data Inc. The report comes as 2023 ...

Researchers have published details about a new attack method that exploits a vulnerability in the Secure Socket Shell or SSH networking protocol that raises concerns about the security of data transmissions across networks. Dubbed a “Terrapin Attack” by researchers Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann and Jörg Schwenk, the vulnerability allows attackers to manipulate sequence numbers in SSH ...

An international police operation targeting online financial crime held over six months has concluded with almost 3,500 arrests and the seizure of $300 million in assets across 34 countries. The operation, called HAECHI IV, ran from July through to this month and targeted seven types of scams: voice phishing, romance scams, online sextortion, investment fraud, ...

A new report released today by cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. finds that in 2023, fewer than 1% of vulnerabilities contributed to the highest risks and were routinely exploited in the wild. The 2023 Threat Landscape Year in Review report details key insights from the vulnerability threat landscape, the top vulnerability types and other related data, ...