Hundreds of nonfungible tokens have been stolen from NFT marketplace OpenSea with a value of at least $1.7 million. The theft took place between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST on Saturday and involved 32 users. According to a tweet Saturday by Devin Finzer, co-founder and chief executive of OpenSea, the thefts involved a phishing attack, as affected users ...

Cryptocurrency and blockchain services provider Circle Internet Financial Inc. today announced that it will now go public via a special-purpose acquisition company in a new deal that values it at $9 billion. Circle announced in July that it intended to go public with Concord Acquisition Corp. in a deal that valued it at $4.5 billion. It’s now ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has appointed its first head of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and announced that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is establishing a new Virtual Asset Exploitation Unit. The first appointed head of the NCET is Eun Young Choi. Described as a seasoned prosecutor with nearly a decade of experience within the department, ...

A new report from Confluera Inc. has found that information technology leaders cited cybersecurity concerns as the biggest impediment to cloud and multicloud adoption. The 2022 Cloud Cybersecurity Survey Report polled 200 U.S. IT leaders at medium to large-sized organizations on how they’re tackling the increasingly complex remote, cloud-centric IT security landscape. The vast majority ...

No-code workflow automation startup Bardeen Inc. today launched out of stealth mode, announcing it has raised $3.5 million in a seed round that included 468 Capital and FirstMark Capital as investors. Founded in 2020, Bardeen offers a no-code platform designed to provide workflow automation that helps knowledge workers become more productive. The company’s platform is pitched as ...

A new remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Cassandra has the potential to “wreak havoc” on systems used by large companies. Cassandra is a free, open-source, distributed NoSQL database management system that handles large amounts of data across commodity servers. Originally created by Facebook Inc., now Meta Platforms Inc., Cassandra provides extremely high availability with no ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today issued an alert that Russian state-sponsored hackers are actively targeting defense contractor networks. The alert states that from at least January 2020 to now, Russian state-sponsored cyber actors have targeted both small and ...

Shares in behavior tracking firm Amplitude Inc. plunged in after-hours trading today after the company delivered a lower-than-expected outlook in its latest quarterly earnings report. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Amplitude reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of five cents per share, compared with a loss of two cents in the ...

Leadership Circle, a company that offers leadership development services for business leaders and teams, today today announced $20 million in funding from RF Investment Partners. A nearly 40-year-old company raising its first venture capital funding is rare and this is the case with Leadership Circle, which was founded in 1985. The funding will be used to further development of ...

The world faces what could turn out to be World War III, as Russian troops mass on the border with Ukraine and could invade the sovereign country this week — but Russia apparently is already marching on the internet. The best way to start an invasion is to cripple the internet and online functionality of ...