Cisco Systems Inc. has been given approval by China’s State Administration of Market Regulation, the country’s antitrust regulator, to acquire Acacia Communications Inc. Cisco first announced that it was intending to acquire networking chip maker Acadia for $2.6 billion in July 2019 but failed to obtain approval from the Chinese government. Acacia tried to back out of ...

Cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes Inc. has been hacked and internal emails stolen. The hack, revealed today, is being attributed to the nation-state actor implicated in the Solar Winds Worldwide LLC breach, though Malwarebytes noted that it doesn’t use Solar Winds products itself. The intrusion vector involved attackers abusing applications with privileged access to Microsoft Office ...

Automated cash management startup Trovata Inc. said early Tuesday that it has raised $20 million in new funding to deliver new services, accelerate multibank application programming interfaces globally and add more bank distribution partners. The round was led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital and included Capital One Ventures, Pivot Investment Partners, J.P. Morgan and FINTOP Capital. Under ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a warning in relation to “vishing” or voice phishing attacks, a form of cybercrime that uses social engineering over a telephone to gain access access to private personal and financial information for the purposes of financial reward. The FBI said in a notification Jan. 14 that cybercriminals are ...

Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin has shut down after it was hacked last month. In the hack in December, those behind it changed cryptocurrency exchange rates on Livecoin and the company lost control over all of its servers, back ends, nodes and social media accounts. Despite efforts by Livecoin, including establishing an alternate domain name, the ...

The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency has revealed that it was struck by a ransomware attack on Christmas Eve that shut down its internal networks. The form of the ransomware attack was not disclosed, but the attack was detected at 12:01 a.m. Dec. 24. According to the agency, it affected its contact center, internal systems, processes and ...

Artificial intelligence-powered relocation firm PerchPeek Ltd. today said it has raised £2 million ($2.72 million) to further its international expansion as well as growing its U.S. sales team. The round was led by Episode 1 and included Kevin Felix of ScotiaBank, Jahed Rahman of Aldar and Kris Rudeegraap of Sendoso. Founded in 2018, PerchPeek initially started as a ...

Data on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine that was stolen in December has been published online by those behind the hack. The leaked data was discovered earlier this week by the European Medicines Agency, where the data was originally stolen from Dec. 9. The EMA did not disclose how the hack took place or exactly what data ...

In the latest twist on the SolarWinds hacking story, a site called SolarLeaks is selling stolen data from the hack, including source code from Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., FireEye Inc. and SolarWinds Worldwide LLC. The SolarLeaks website is offering to sell partial source code of Microsoft Windows and various Microsoft repositories for $600,000, with ...

Google LLC today completed its acquisition of smartwatch maker Fitbit Inc. despite an ongoing antitrust investigation into the deal. The $2.1 billion acquisition deal was announced in November 2019, when the announcement immediately caused a backlash. Some Fitbit users were reported to be ditching their devices over data privacy concerns. Founded in 2007, Fitbit offers a ...