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, ...

Supply chain automation startup Apkudo Inc. said today it has raised $14 million in new funding to accelerate the global expansion of its Hive Device Platform across emerging channels and industries The Series B round was led by Harbert Growth Partners and MissionOG and included Grotech Ventures and Lavrock Ventures. Nine-year-old Apkudo’s Hive platform is designed to ...

Apple Inc. today announced an event for Nov. 10 at which it’s expected to debut new Mac computers run by Apple processors. The event, dubbed “one more thing,” a shoutout to the late Steve Jobs, will be virtual only as per previous events this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. What Apple may debut is ...

The Home Depot Inc. in Canada has suffered a data leak after sending customer information to other Home Depot customers. The first reports of the data breach appeared on Twitter on Oct. 28 as customers said they received reminder emails by mistake for hundreds of orders that were ready to pick up. The emails included customer names, email ...