Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Authorities warn of Russian ‘Fancy Bear’ group’s brute-force attack campaign

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 ...

Robinhood IPO filing shows impressive numbers and a high reliance on Dogecoin

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. ...

PayPal phishing attack uses legitimate services to bypass Google Workspace security

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 ...

Alleged Capital One hacker indicted on new computer fraud charges

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 raises $250M on a $2.75B valuation

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 ...

Enterprise API security startup Noname Security raises $60M

Enterprise application programming security startup Noname Security today announced it has raised $60 million in new funding amid fast growth. Insight Partners led the Series B round. Other investors included Next47, Forgepoint, The Syndicate Group, Cyberstarts and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Including the new funding, Noname Security has raised $85 million in venture capital funding to date. Founded in 2020, ...

SentinelOne soars, Didi doesn’t on big day for initial public offerings

Updated: On a big day for initial public offerings, cybersecurity provider SentinelOne Inc. today saw its share price soar in its first trading as a public company, but Chinese ride-hailing Didi Global Inc. rose only slightly in its debut. SentinelOne’s shares jumped 21% by the close of trading today. The company, which filed for an ...

Machine learning startup DataRobot reportedly raises $250M on $6B valuation

Machine learning automation startup DataRobot Inc. has raised $250 million in new funding on a valuation of about $6 billion, according to a report today by Axios. Altimeter Capital Management and Tiger Global are said to have led the Series G round. Other investors include T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Silver Lake and New Enterprise Associates, according to the Axios report. ...

Database of 700M LinkedIn users found for sale on a hacking forum

A database with details of 700 million LinkedIn users has been found for sale on a hacking forum. The database has been offered for sale since June 22 by a user called TomLiner on Raid Forums, including a sample of 1 million records provided to prove the claim. However, no price was listed to purchase ...

Cloud tax practice management startup Canopy raises $11M

Cloud tax practice management platform startup Canopy Tax Inc. today announced it has raised $11 million in new funding to keep building out its accounting industry modern practice suite. Ankona Capital led the Series C round. Other investors included NewView Capital, Pelion Venture Partners and Tenaya Capital. Founded in 2014, Canopy offers cloud-based tax workflow management software ...