Clothing maker French Connection Group plc and Brazillian medical diagnostic company Grupo Fleury are the latest companies targeted by the REvil ransomware gang. The attack on French Connection, also known as FCUK, was first reported by The Register. It involved the REvil gang exploiting a security vulnerability in the company’s backend. As a result, internal ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. rose slightly in after-hours trading today after the company delivered a mixed bag of earnings results. For the quarter ended May 31, BlackBerry reported revenue of $174 million, down 16% from the same quarter last year. The company, now mainly a cybersecurity firm with a growing “internet of things” business, reported ...

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz said today it had raised a formidable $2.2 billion for a third fund to invest in blockchain and cryptocurrency. The venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andreessen (pictured) and Ben Horowitz, said that the fund would allow a16z, as it’s commonly known, to continue investing in crypto networks and ...

Blockchain analysis startup Chainalysis Inc. said today that it has raised $100 million in new funding to execute its vision as the blockchain data platform for cryptocurrency, including increasing its headcount. Coatue led the Series E round. Other investors included Benchmark, Accel, Addition, Dragoneer, Durable Capital Partners, 9Yards Capital, Altimeter, Blackstone, GIC, Pictet, Sequoia Heritage and SVB Capital. ...

Google LLC today announced a unified schema for describing vulnerabilities precisely to make it easier to share vulnerabilities between databases. The idea behind the unified schema is to address an issue with existing vulnerability databases where various ecosystems and organizations create their own data. As each uses its own format to describe vulnerabilities, a client ...

Cloud deployment workflow management startup envZero Inc. today announced that it has raised $17 million in new funding to expand its “infrastructure as code” platform and accelerate visibility, predictability and governance of cloud deployments. M12, Microsoft Corp.’s venture capital fund, led the Series A round. Other investors included Boldstart Ventures, Grove Ventures and Crescendo Ventures. Founded ...

The founders of a South African cryptocurrency investment firm have disappeared with a staggering 63,000 bitcoins ($2.09 billion) in what appears to be the largest exit scam in crypto history. Africrypt, led by founder and Chief Executive Officer Raees Cajee and his brother and Chief Operating Officer Ameer Cajee, was founded in 2016 and offered global ...

Security pioneer and cryptocurrency supporter John McAfee has been found dead in a Spanish prison from an apparent suicide at the age of 75. In October, McAfee was arrested in Spain after being indicted in the U.S. on multiple counts of tax evasion. His death followed a ruling from Spain’s National Court that he should ...

Enterprise enclaves startup Anjuna Security Inc. announced today it has raised $30 million to bring its Confidential Cloud Software Platform to market and to evolve its technology and security innovations in the enterprise confidential computing market. Insight Partners led the Series B round. Founded in 2018, the company provides a platform that leverages confidential computing technologies to ...

Data store and object security startup Symmetry Systems Inc. today announced it has raised $15 million in new funding to support its rapid growth in revenue, customers and employees. Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital led the Series A round. Other investors include Accenture Ventures, Symmetry Systems and a number of individual investors. Those individual investors included Tom ...