The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have released a joint cybersecurity advisory warning that hacking groups are actively targeting vulnerabilities in Fortinet Inc.’s FortiOS. While not naming which hacking groups that are targeting the operating system, the April 2 advisory describes them as advanced ...

A database containing details of 533 million Facebook users is being offered on a hacking forum. First spotted April 3 by Alon Gal, chief technology officer of Hudson Rock Ltd., the data was posted by a user called TomLiner on Raid Forums and is claimed to include user names, mobile phone numbers, gender, occupation, city, country, ...

Autonomous truck startup Plus has raised $220 million in new funding and is reported to be in talks to go public via a merger with a special-purchase acquisition company. Reuters reported Wednesday that the company is in advanced talks with a few SPACs over a deal, with an announcement expected within a few weeks. The new ...

Researchers at Google LLC’s Threat Analysis Group are warning that the same North Korean hackers who targeted security researchers earlier this year have now set up a new website and fake social media profiles for a fake company called “SecuriElite.” In the initial report in January, the Google researchers warned that the North Korean Advanced ...

In a sign of mixed investor reaction to recent initial public stock offerings, shares in SoftBank Group Corp.-backed real estate technology firm Compass Inc. rose slightly on their public debut on the New York Exchange today before softening in later trading. The company offered 25 million shares in its IPO at $18 per share, a figure ...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has obtained authorization for a “John Doe Summons” that seeks to unmask high-value customers at cryptocurrency service provider Circle Internet Financial Inc. The summons, approved today by the federal court in the District of Massachusetts, demands that Circle along with its predecessors, subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates, including Poloniex LLC, hand ...

Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today announced a number of new unified cloud and container security products to its lineup with the launch of continuous cloud security posture management. The first offering, Cloud Security Posture Management for AWS, is based on Cloud Custodian, an open-source, stateless rules engine that manages AWS environments by consolidating many of the ...

The Harris Foundation, a U.K. education charity organization that runs 50 schools has been struck by a ransomware attack that has seen its systems taken offline. The ransomware attack hit the foundation on Saturday and according to the U.K. press today put “nearly 40,000 pupils at risk.” The form of ransomware and whether data was stolen ...

The latest confirmed victim in the now infamous SolarWinds Worldwide LLC hack is reported to be the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, as email accounts belonging to the then-DHS head and cybersecurity staff were breached. The Associated Press reported today that it was “suspected Russian hackers” that gained access to DHS officials. The access is said ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission today dropped its antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm Technologies Inc. four years after they first filed the claim against the mobile chip maker. The FTC filed the lawsuit against Qualcomm in January 2017, claiming that the company was strong-arming smartphone manufacturers, including Apple Inc., into agreeing to unfair licensing deals via ...