A database containing voter registration details of 186 million people in the U.S. is being distributed on hacking forums, putting voters at risk of scams and disinformation campaigns. The data was discovered by researchers at cybersecurity company Trustwave Holdings Inc., which publicized the situation Wednesday. Along with the voter registration data, the database was also ...

Kik Interactive Inc. has finally settled the lawsuit filed against it by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its 2017 Kin initial coin offering as a court signed off on a deal. Under the settlement announced Wednesday, approved by Judge Alvin Kellerstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Kik is “permanently restrained and enjoined” ...

A day after announcing that it intends to offer cryptocurrency services to its customers, PayPal Holdings Inc. is reported to be discussing a potential crypto acquisition. According to Bloomberg, PayPal has been holding talks on a possible acquisition of enterprise cryptocurrency wallet and custodial services startup BitGo Inc., with a deal possible “within weeks.” Founded in ...

PayPal Inc. today launched a new service that will allow users to buy, hold and sell cryptocurrency directly from their existing PayPal accounts. The service will initially provide support for bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin and will be available to PayPal users in the U.S. in the coming weeks. Cryptocurrency support for Venmo, PayPal’s ...

After going public late Wednesday at $20 a share, cybersecurity firm McAfee Corp. saw its shares tumble about 7% as they sold for the first time on the public market Thursday. The $20 figure was below the maximum figure of $22 per share McAfee proposed in its S-1 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing, but that still didn’t get ...

Shares in Xilinx Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading after the chipmaker delivered better-than-expected second-quarter earnings results. The company, which makes customizable chips called field-programmable gate arrays for the aerospace and defense industries as well as for servers and consumer products, reported revenue of $766.5 million in the quarter, down 8% from a year ago but ...

Cybercriminal activity has been increasing across the board in a year dominated by COVID-19, and a new report from Akamai Technologies Inc. details the rise in criminal activity targeted at the retail and hospitality sectors. “The State of the Internet/ Security Report: Loyalty for Sale – Retail and Hospitality Fraud” details the current state of criminal activity ...

Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. has suffered a data breach with patient information found exposed on unsecured cloud storage. Discovered and publicized today by researchers at vpnMentor, the exposed data was found on a misconfigured Google Cloud storage bucket. The data included hundreds of conversations between Pfizer’s automated customer support software and people using its prescription pharmaceutical ...

In a bizarre case that is being compared to the saga of Robin Hood, a ransomware group has started donating some of its extorted proceeds to charities. The Darkside ransomware group and related ransomware first emerged in August and was linked to previous groups GandCrab and Sodinokibi at the time. Although there are similarities in the ...

Vulnerabilities have been found in multiple mobile browsers that allow hackers to spoof the URL of websites in the address bar. Detailed today by researcher Tod Beardsley at Rapid7 Inc., the address bar spoofing vulnerabilities were found in Apple Inc.’s Safari, Opera Touch/Mini, Yandex, Bolt Browser, RITS Browser and UC Browser. Although most of those are not ...