Verkada Inc., a Silicon Valley-funded security camera startup, has suffered a data breach with hackers reportedly able to gain access to 150,000 live camera feeds from companies, jails, police departments and schools. The data breach was led by an “international hacker collective” and intended to show the ease with which systems could be broken into, ...

A campaign by Chinese hackers that targeted Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange Server, an attack Microsoft warned about earlier this month, is larger than originally believed and has prompted the establishment of an emergency task force. The vulnerabilities are being exploited by a group dubbed Hafnium, which is described as being “highly skilled and sophisticated.” The group ...

Bitcoin technology and financial services firm NYDIG Execution LLC said today it has raised $200 million in new growth funding to help it fund business initiatives relating to bitcoin. The growth capital round was led by Stone Ridge Holdings Group, Morgan Stanley, New York Life, MassMutual, Soros Fund Management and FS Investments and included Bessemer Venture Partners and FinTech ...

PayPal Holdings Inc. today announced it has acquired digital asset startup Curv Inc. to allow it to expand its initiatives in support of cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Although the purchase price was not disclosed, Decrypt reported it was nearly $200 million. Founded in 2018, Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure technology designed to ...

Apple Inc. today released software updates for its range of iPhone, iPad, Mac computers and the Apple Watch that address a vulnerability in the WebKit engine that powers the Safari browser. The security updates to iOS 14.4.1, iPadOS 14.4.1, macOS 11.2.3 and watchOS 7.32 come a little over a month after the 14.4 release in ...

Cybersecurity software provider Qualys Inc. is the latest victim of a data breach, as the Clop ransomware gang posted on its site screenshots of files allegedly belonging to the company. Qualys confirmed the attack Wednesday, describing it as a “security incident” that exploited a previously identified vulnerability in software from Accellion Inc. to transfer information from the ...

Virtual events platform startup Hopin Ltd. said today it has raised $400 million in new funding to accelerate growth, scale up operations and strengthen its team and platform. The Series C round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst and included IVP, Coatue, DFJ Growth, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global. The investment values Hopin at $5.65 ...

Financial services provider Square Inc. today revealed it has purchased a majority stake in Aspiro AB, the owner of the Tidal music streaming service, for $297 million. The exact size of the stake, made with a combination of cash and stock, was not disclosed. Under the terms of the deal, previous majority owner Jay-Z is ...

Israeli artificial intelligence startup Seebo Interactive Inc. today announced it has raised an additional $24 million in funding to expand its global reach and enhance its process-based AI solution. The expanded Series B round was led by Vertex Ventures and included 10D, The Phoenix and Leumi Partners. Founded in 2012, Seebo offers a process-based AI solution designed ...

Open-source relational database startup Yugabyte Inc. said today it has raised $48 million in new funding to accelerate the launch of its fully managed Yugabyte Cloud offering. The Series C round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and included Greenspring Associates, Dell Technologies Capital, Wipro Ventures and 8VC. Including the new funding, Yugabyte has raised $103 million to ...