Automated quality assurance startup QA Wolf Inc. today launched out of stealth mode with $20.1 million in funding to scale up its team and expand its product experience. Inspired Capital led the round with Notation Capital, CoFound and several individual investors including Peter Thiel also participating. Founded in 2019, QA Wolf pitches itself as transforming the $40 billion ...

Managed cybersecurity platform startup Huntress Labs Inc. said today it has raised $40 million in debt financing from CIBC Innovation Banking to pursue merger and acquisition opportunities, research, product development and expansion into international markets. Founded in 2015, Huntress offers a cybersecurity platform with managed endpoint detection and response. The company’s platform uses automated detection and human-powered ...

Cybersecurity and compliance solution startup Onapsis Inc. today launched a dedicated threat intelligence center to enhance business-critical application security. The Onapsis Research Labs Threat Intel Center connects the Onapsis Threat Intelligence Cloud, a global network of sensors and applications that capture exploit activity by attackers, plus deep research conducted by ORL, into a unified, detailed threat ...

The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the U.S., has been struck by a ransomware attack that disrupted services. The attack, first described by LAUSD as technical issues until later disclosed as a ransomware attack, struck the school district on the weekend of Sept. 3-4. The form of ransomware used ...

Meta Platforms Inc. has scheduled an event for Oct. 11 where it’s expected to debut its next-generation mixed reality headset. The Meta Connect 2022 event will be held virtually. The site for the event says attendees can “discover how the metaverse is being built by many and why collaboration is the key to it all.” ...

TikTok has denied a claim that it had been breached after a hacker on a popular hacking forum claimed to have obtained both user data and source code from the popular service. A hacker going by the name of “AgainstTheWest” claimed to have breached TikTok on Breach Forums on Sept. 3 and stolen data from ...

Cryptocurrency mining pool provider Poolin has suspended withdrawals from its cryptocurrency wallet service in a possible sign of serious trouble at the company. Founded in 2017, Poolin offers a multi-cryptocurrency mining pool, custodial wallet, block explorer and transaction accelerator. The company is venture capital-backed, having raised $10 million from investors including Three Arrows Capital, LedgerPrime, ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun a review into Amazon.com Inc.’s $1.7 billion planned acquisition of iRobot Corp., the company behind the Roomba brand of robot vacuum cleaners, Politico reported late Friday. The deal, announced Aug. 5, would see Amazon acquire not only the Roomba robotic vacuum line but also educational robots that are ...

Content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. has blocked the controversial forum Kiwi Farms after forum members undertook a harassment campaign against a transgender YouTube streamer. Kiwi Farms was initially founded as CWC Wiki in 2009 by a former 8chan moderator to troll and harass Chris Chan, an autistic vlogger and webcomic creator. Becoming Kiwi Farms ...

A disturbing new report finds that three-quarters of mobile applications analyzed contained valid Amazon Web Services Inc. access tokens that allowed access to private AWS cloud services. The findings were detailed today by Kevin Watkins, a security researcher on Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team. The situation involved 1,859 publicly available apps on both Google LLC’s Android operating ...