Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. surged 14% today after Bloomberg published a report claiming that cryptocurrency exchange FTX Digital Markets Ltd. is exploring acquiring the company. The report, referencing people with knowledge of the matter, says FTX is deliberating internally on how to buy Robinhood. No formal takeover approach has been made and FTX could ...

Security automation startup Cerby Inc. today launched a security platform for unmanageable applications that enhances security practices by empowering both employees and security teams. The Cerby zero trust architecture takes on the challenges of unmanageable applications in the shadow information technology universe. Shadow IT technologies are those selected and onboarded by business units outside the ...

Apple Inc. is preparing to launch a wide range of new products in the second half of the year and early 2023, according to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Describing the forthcoming product releases as a “flood of new products,” Gurman makes some expected predictions, such as four new iPhone models. However, he goes further, ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and the Coast Guard Cyber Command today warned network defenders that Log4Shell vulnerabilities are still being targeted by hackers. Log4Shell first emerged in December and actively targeted vulnerabilities found in Apache Log4j, open-source software used by numerous companies. The initial vulnerabilities, including subsequent others, allow hackers to access affected systems. The ...

Identity and access management startup ConductorOne Inc. has raised $15 million in new funding to enhance product development and increase its marketing efforts. Accel led the Series A round, with Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital, Active Capital and several individual investors also participating. Including the new funding, the company has raised $20 million to date, according to Crunchbase. ...

Researchers at Lookout Inc. last week detailed a newly discovered form of enterprise-grade Android “surveillanceware” or spyware, dubbed “Hermit” being used by the government of Kazakhstan. It was noted in the report that the software is believed to have been developed by Italian spyware vendor RCS Lab S.p.A. A week later, researchers at Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group today ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped slightly in after-hours trading today despite the company mostly beating analysts’ expectations for its fiscal first quarter. For the quarter ended May 31, BlackBerry reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation and legal expenses of five cents per share on revenue of $168 million. Analysts had been expecting ...

Security researchers at Secureworks Inc.’s Counter Threat Unit today published a new report on a Chinese hacking group suspected of deploying ransomware as a smokescreen for espionage. The group, called Bronze Starlight, has been active since early 2021. It compromises networks by exploiting vulnerabilities in network perimeter devices, including known vulnerabilities for which patches are ...

A phishing campaign targeting users of the MetaMask software cryptocurrency wallet is attempting to steal account credentials. Detailed today by researchers at Armorblox Inc., the phishing emails target Microsoft Office 365 customers, particularly in organizations across the financial industry. The emails used in the campaign look like a MetaMask verification email. The socially engineered emails ...

Strategy execution platform company Gtmhub Inc. today said it has acquired business reliability platform startup Cliff.ai for an undisclosed price. Based in the U.K., Cliff.ai offers a platform that it claims can monitor and track every business metric autonomously and identify key drivers. The platform finds the root cause for changes and notifies relevant teams and ...