A new venture capital fund has been established with an aim to raise €100 million ($113 million) to invest in blockchain startups. Called Meta Change Capital, the fund was established by Nikola Stojanow, co-founder of æternity blockchain and the creator of AE Ventures investment firm, to focus on funding blockchain development in emerging markets. “I see ...

Tween retailer Claire’s Stores Inc. is the latest victim of a Magecart attack in which the payment details of customers were stolen. Discovered by security researchers at Sansec BV and published today, the attack began in the last week of April and was present through June 13. Magecart is a form of attack that hijacks customer ...

The records of hundreds of thousands of users of a range of niche data apps have been exposed online in the latest case of a misconfigured cloud instance. Discovered by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar at vpnMentor and published today, the 845 gigabytes of data containing 2.5 million records related to dating apps, including ...

Six former eBay Inc. employees have been arrested over a cyberstalking campaign in which they targeted a couple who had been critical of the company. The employees are alleged to have started cyberstalking the couple from Natick, Massachusetts, during 2019. The unnamed couple publish an online newsletter covering e-commerce businesses and were critical of eBay’s ...

Intel Corp. today announced a new security capability called Control-Flow Enforcement Technology that delivers processor-level security structures to protect against common malware attack methods that have been a challenge to mitigate with software alone. First available on Intel’s Tiger Lake platform with Willow Cove microarchitecture, Intel CET is designed to protect against the misuse of ...

Enterprise data storage Infinidat Ltd. today announced it has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding. The Series D round came from existing investors TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Claridge Israel, ION Crossover Partners and Moshe Yanai, founder of Infinidat. Founded in 2011, Infinidat offers software-focused enterprise data storage architecture that is designed to solve the conflicting requirements of ...

Microsoft Corp.  has issued a warning that hackers are targeting Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes, to install cryptomining code. The attacks were first detected in April and involve hackers targeting Kubernetes nodes running Kubeflow. The nodes were not so much misconfigured but rather settings had been changed. In a blog post Wednesday, Yossi Weizman, security ...

Enterprise automation platform startup Jiffy.ai said today it has raised $18 million in new funding to deliver on its vision, hire more people and speed up its product roadmap. The Series A round in the company, formally called Paanini Inc., was led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Rebright Partners, W250 Venture Fund and a number ...

Big-data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the coming weeks, according to multiple reports published today. Bloomberg reported that the company, founded by Peter Thiel, is preparing to register a confidential S-1 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The report said Palantir is working with bankers ...

Blockchain startup Unstoppable Domains Inc. today launched a decentralized blog or dBlog service that’s hosted on the InterPlanetary File System and attached to the company’s .crypto domains. Designed to allow .crypto domain holders to build their own blog quickly, the dBlogs do not sit on a single server but are instead decentralized on the IPFS network. ...