A threat group called “Golden Chickens” is targeting professionals on LinkedIn with fake job offers with the intent to infect respondents with malware. As detailed today by cybersecurity firm eSentire Inc., the campaign is “spear-phishing” victims with a sophisticated backdoor Trojan virus that, when installed, gives the hacking group remote control over the victim’s computer. That ...

SoftBank Group Corp. said today it has invested $2.8 billion to acquire a 40% stake in Norwegian warehouse automation company AutoStore AS. SoftBank, Japan’s largest telecommunications companies and one of the world’s largest venture capital firms, acquired shares in the company from funds affiliated with Thomas H. Lee Partners L.P. and EQT Private Equity, among ...

Delivery service startup Enjoy Technology Inc. is the latest company planning to go public via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company in a $1.6 billion deal. Enjoy, the brainchild of former Apple Inc. executive and Apple Store founder Ron Johnson, is planning to merge with Marquee Raine Acquisition Corp., a Nasdaq-listed SPAC that was ...

Top Amazon Web Services Inc. executive Teresa Carlson early today joined big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. in the newly created role of president and chief growth officer. Carlson will report to Doug Merritt, Splunk’s chief executive officer, and will work closely with Splunk’s sales, customer success and marketing leaders to align and drive the company’s ...

Three universities in the U.S. have had data stolen and published online in the latest data breaches related to a vulnerability in software from Accellion Inc. The universities targeted were Stanford University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore, and the University of California at Berkeley, with one commonality among them: The stolen data was published by the ...

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 ...