New research from Akamai Technologies Inc. has found that about 20% of all new domain names registered, some 79 million, were registered for malicious purposes in the first half of the year. The research was based on queries through Akamai CacheServer instances that currently handle more than 80 million DNS queries per second, or 7 ...

Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc. said today it’s freezing all hiring in the U.S. through the end of the year amid uncertain economic conditions and rising inflation. Reuters reported that the company, which cut 60 jobs in its rental division in July, has been battling surging expenses amid the highest inflation in the U.S. in 40 years. ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped in after-hours trading today after the company reported mixed results in its latest quarter. For its second quarter ended Aug. 31, BlackBerry reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of $29 million, or five cents per share, compared with a loss of $33 million, or six cents per ...

Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced enhanced AI operations capabilities across its entire networking portfolio, including the industry’s first artificial intelligence-based network operations management for 5G/LTE gateways. The new AIOps capabilities are designed to address the increasing need for network operations center or NOC teams to deal with accelerated digital innovation and the continued growth in the hybrid ...

Big-data application performance monitoring firm Unravel Data Systems Inc. today announced that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate what it believes is the next generation of DataOps observability. Third Point Ventures led the Series D round, with Bridge Bank, Menlo Ventures, Point 72, GGV Capital and Harmony Capital also participating. Including the new funding, the company ...

The Ukrainian government warned today that Russia is planning to carry out “massive cyberattacks” against power grids and other critical infrastructure in both Ukraine and allied countries. The warning claims that the attacks will be similar to those that targeted Ukraine’s energy supplies in 2015 and 2016. Russia is trying to increase the effect of missile ...

Researchers at Human Security Inc. today said they have disrupted a sophisticated advertising fraud operation that was distributing apps on both Google LLC’s Play store and Apple Inc.’s App Store. The campaign, dubbed “Scylla,” involves using mobile applications pretending to be legitimate apps to trick users into downloading them. The apps contained hidden ads which the ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. has today announced the development of the Cloudflare Zero Trust SIM, a solution that secures every data packet leaving mobile devices. The Zero Trust SIM allows organizations to connect employee devices quickly and securely to Cloudflare’s global network, directly integrating devices with Cloudflare’s Zero Trust platform to protect their network ...

Weeks after the launch of the iPhone 14, speculation has begun on what to expect from Apple Inc. next — and a lack of an expected event next month is one of the more surprising predictions. Noted Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg predicts that Apple might not have enough things left to announce this ...

Microsoft Corp. researchers today detailed a recent attack involving malicious OAuth applications that were deployed on compromised cloud tenants to control Exchange servers and spread spam. The threat actor launched credential-stuffing attacks against high-risk accounts that did not have multifactor authentication enabled and then leveraged unsecured administrator accounts to gain initial access. With this access, the ...