PayPal Holdings Inc. is now offering cryptocurrency services to all eligible account holders in the U.S. after announcing a soft launch of the service Oct. 21. The service allows users to buy, hold and sell for bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin within their existing PayPal accounts. Using the service is as simple as account ...

Some 5.8 million customer records stolen from Singapore-based hotel company RedDoorz have been found for sale on the dark web following the company being hacked in September. RedDoorz, formally named Commeasure Pte. Ltd., which offers hotels across Southeast Asia, disclosed the hack Sept. 28. It said at the time only that it was aware that one of its information ...

Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Penetration testing, usually abbreviated as pen testing, has legitimate uses as a security tool to test security but can also be used by bad actors to attack a company. ...

Snap Inc. has acquired Israeli voice assistant solutions startup Voca.ai Ltd. for $70 million, according to reports today from Calcalist and Globes referencing people with knowledge of the deal. Neither Snap nor Voca.ai has yet confirmed the reports. Founded in 2017, Voca.ai offers an artificial intelligence-powered voice assistant platform designed to free up human agents ...

The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang has been making regular headlines for its ransomware attacks on multiple companies in recent months, but in a new twist, the group has taken to advertising on social media to pressure one of its victims into paying. The victim in this case is Italian drinks maker Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A., best known simply ...

Virtual events platform startup Hopin Ltd. said today it has raised $125 million in new funding to scale up its platform and support ongoing development efforts. The Series B round was led by IVP and Tiger Global and included Coatue, DFJ Growth, Accel, Northzone, Salesforce Ventures and Seedcamp. Founded in 2019, Hopin offers an all-in-one live online events platform ...

Shares in Lyft Inc. rose in after-hours trading today after the ride-hailing company beat analysts’ expectations for its third-quarter earnings and said it’s on track to be profitable by the end of 2021. For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Lyft reported revenue fell 48% from a year ago, to $499.7 million, but that was up ...

A former Microsoft Corp. engineer has been sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing $10 million in digital currency. Ukrainian national Volodymyr Kvashuk worked at Microsoft at its head office in Redmond, Washington, starting in 2016 before he was fired in June 2018 and then arrested the next month. Kvashuk worked on Microsoft’s online sales platform, where he used ...

Ransomware is best known for targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system, but a new version of the RandomEXX ransomware has been found that targets Linux systems. Detected and publicized Nov. 6 by security researchers at Kaspersky Lab, the Linux build of RansomEXX is described as a highly targeted Trojan that includes a hard-coded name of the targeted organization. ...

Data relating to more than 10 million hotel reservations has been found online in the latest case of cloud storage misconfiguration. Discovered by researchers at Website Planet, which wrote about it Nov. 6, the database was found exposed on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 bucket belonging to Prestige Software S.L., a Spanish company that specializes ...