Shares in Square Inc. surged in after-hours trading after the financial services provider smashed revenue and earnings in its third fiscal quarter. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Square’s revenue jumped 140%, to $3.03 billion, from a year ago. Analysts had been predicting just $2.04 billion. Revenue includes $2.07 billion from its Cash App business, up ...

Uber Technologies Inc. shares dropped slightly in after-hours trading after the ride-hailing giant delivered a mixed bag of third-quarter earnings results. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Uber reported overall gross bookings of $14.7 billion, down 10% year-over-year but significantly up from $10.2 billion in the second quarter. Revenue fell 18%, to $3.13 billion, from ...

More than 23,000 hacked databases covering billions of credentials have been leaked from a now-defunct breach index site and are being offered for download on hacking forums and Telegram. The data came from Cit0Day, a website that was offering the databases for sale to hackers for a monthly fee. Cit0Day ceased operations in September. An archived ...

A new sophisticated form of ransomware has been detected in the wild that uses advanced techniques to encrypt virtual machines. First detailed today by Bleeping Computer, “RegretLocker” was discovered in October. Specifically targeting Windows virtual machines, the ransomware uses an interesting technique of mounting a virtual disk file so each of its files can be encrypted ...

Toymaker Mattel Inc., the company behind Barbie dolls, disclosed that it was targeted in a ransomware attack, but it managed to fend it off. The ransomware attack was detected on July 28, according to a filing the company made today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. While not disclosing which sort of ransomware was involved, ...

Hexagon AB today said it has acquired industrial control system cybersecurity company PAS Global LLC for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1993, PAS providers safety, cybersecurity and asset management reliability solutions for the energy, process and power industries worldwide. The company’s ICS cybersecurity, automation asset management and operations management software and services are designed to provide safe, profitable ...

Marijuana growing social website GrowDiaries has suffered a data breach with the details of 3.4 million users being exposed online. First discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko and detailed today on LinkedIn, the data exposure came on an unsecured database that had no password. The data include email addresses, IP addresses, usernames, user posts, MD5-hashed passwords and ...

Intel Corp. reportedly has acquired Cnvrg.io, an Israeli data science startup that helps teams create and run machine learning models. TechCrunch made the claim, though neither Intel nor Cnvrg.io has publicly confirmed the news as of the time of writing. TechCrunch did say Intel confirmed the deal. “Cnvrg will be an independent Intel company and will continue to ...

Customer payment data has been stolen from JM Bullion, a Texas-based online buyer and seller of precious metals, in a suspected Magecart attack. According to a notice sent to customers recently, suspicious activity on its website was first detected on July 6 and involved malicious code that was later found to be present on the ...

The infamous Maze ransomware group has announced that it is shutting down operations, but how serious it is and for how long remains open to speculation. The announcement came via a statement on the dark web that claimed that “Maze Team Project is announcing it is officially closed. All the links to out [sic] project, ...