Coinbase Inc. has acquired cryptocurrency wallet startup Breadwinner AG, better known as BRD, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2015, the company’s cryptocurrency wallet, previously known as Breadwallet and Bread, is a mobile-first wallet with more than 10 million customers and $20 billion in assets under protection. Along with the wallet, the company also supports ...

A previously unknown hacking group is claimed to be actively targeting biomanufacturing facilities in the U.S. using a new form of malware dubbed “Tardigrade.” The claim was made this week by the Bioeconomy ​​Information Sharing and Analysis Center. The first alleged attack using Tardigrade is said to have occurred in spring 2021, with a second attack in ...

Apple Inc. today filed a lawsuit against Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies Ltd. over the NSO’s use of its Pegasus spyware. NSO is infamous when it comes to spyware. The company is legitimate and its services, including Pegasus, are deployed by various governments to spy on people. Those people have in the past included journalists, human ...

Shares in Anaplan Inc. plunged in after-hours trading today despite the business planning firm beat quarterly expectations. For the quarter ended Oct. 31, Anaplan reported a loss before costs such as stock compensation of $6.9 million, or five cents a share, on revenue of $155.3 million, up 35% year-over-year. Analysts had been predicting a loss of ...

Wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems A/S has been struck by a cyberattack that resulted in the theft of data. Vestas said in a statement today that it had discovered a “cybersecurity incident” on Nov. 19. The company added that it has since worked with external partners to contain the situation and re-establish the integrity ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency today issued an alert about threats against critical infrastructure during holidays and weekends. The alert is to remind critical infrastructure partners that malicious actors “aren’t making the same holiday plans as you.” The FBI and CISA note that recent history ...

The data of up to 1.2 million GoDaddy Inc. customers who use the company’s managed WordPress hosting have been stolen in the latest data breach to involve the web hosting and domain registration provider. The latest security incident involving the high-profile company was only disclosed via a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing that was ...

Insurance companies are cutting the amount they coverage in cybersecurity policies amid a surge in ransomware attacks over the last year. That attacks are increasing is well-known: A report in October found that ransomware attacks had targeted 64% of companies. Cybersecurity insurance was also part of the agenda at a summit at The White House in August. ...

A data breach has hit a Utah medical services provider, exposing the records of nearly 600,000 patients. The incident involved Utah Imaging Associates Inc., a radiology medical practice based in Farmington, Utah. In a notice published Nov. 18, the company said it had detected what they describe as a “network security incident” on Sept. 4. ...

El Salvador’s president has announced an ambitious plan to build a so-called “Bitcoin City” in which the cryptocurrency will be the only legal tender. President Nayib Bukele made the announcement on Saturday night, claiming that the new city would be fully fledged. The city will include residential and commercial areas, restaurants, an airport, port and ...