It’s never a dull day in cybersecurity. How many companies have been affected is the question of the day following news yesterday that the REvil ransomware gang had exploited Kaseya VSA and taken down a Swiss supermarket. The REvil ransomware gang has targeted companies using information technology management software from Kaseya Ltd. The attack, which came ahead ...

Google LLC has removed nine Android apps from the Play store, including one with millions of users, after they were discovered to be stealing users’ Facebook Inc. login credentials. Discovered and detailed July 1 by malware analysts at Dr. Web, the apps, described as “stealer Trojans,” were spread as harmless software and were installed nearly 6 ...

A chain of supermarkets in Switzerland is one of possibly thousands of potential victims in a new REvil ransomware gang attack that has targeted companies using information technology management software from Kaseya Ltd. The new REvil attack came ahead of the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. today. According to Bleeping Computer, the attack targeted managed ...

The Chinese government has ordered the removal of the Didi Chuxing app from app stores in mainland China on security grounds days after parent company Didi Global Inc. went public on the New York Stock Exchange. The order came from the Cyberspace Administration of China on Sunday local time and cited serious violations on collecting ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency released a new module in its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool Wednesday to allow businesses to assess their exposure to ransomware and their preparedness for defending against an attack. The Ransomware Readiness Assessment is a desktop software tool that guides network operators through a step-by-step ...

Authorities in the U.S. and the U.K. today issued a new alert warning that a Russian hacking group is conducting a campaign of brute-force attacks to gain access to networks and steal data. The alert, issued by the U.S. National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, the Federal Bureau of ...

Free stock-trading startup Robinhood Market Inc. today publicly disclosed its initial public offering filing three months after confidentially filing for an IPO with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission. The S-1 filing spells out Robinhood’s financials for the first time, and the numbers are impressive. In 2020, Robinhood generated revenue of $959 million, up 245% from 2019. ...

A newly revealed PayPal Holdings Inc. credential phishing attack is using exploited legitimate services to target victims and bypass security services provided by Google LLC Workspace. Detailed today by Bryan O’Neil, vice president of solutions engineering at email security firm Armorblox Inc., the attack exploits issues with PayPal integration with services from companies such as GoDaddy ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed additional charges against Paige A. Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services Inc. engineer who allegedly hacked Capital One Financial Corp. in 2019, resulting in the theft of 100 million customer records. Thompson was initially indicted in August 2019 and was accused of hacking Capital One and a range of ...

Autonomous drone delivery startup Zipline Inc. today announced that it had raised $250 million in new funding to help it accelerate development of a new model for instant logistics. The Series E round was raised at a valuation of $2.75 billion. Investors included Fidelity, Intercorp, Emerging Capital Partners, Reinvent Capital, Baillie Gifford, Temasek and Katalyst Ventures. Founded ...