The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network today imposed a $60 million penalty against the founder of two cryptocurrency “mixer” services on the grounds that they breached U.S. law. The accused, Larry Dean Harmon, is alleged to be the operator of Helix and Coin Ninja, sites which provided mixers or “tumbler” services. Cryptocurrency mixer services are ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted six Russians related to the so-called “Sandworm” hacking group that’s allegedly linked to hacking incidents, including those that targeted the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the 2017 French elections and the NotPetya ransomware attacks. The six hackers, alleges the indictment unsealed today, are all members of Unit 74455 of the Russian Main ...

A database of more than 350 million customer records belonging to voice over-internet-protocol company Broadvoice has been found exposed online in the latest case of a company failing to secure its cloud storage. Discovered and publicized Oct. 15 by security researcher Bob Diachenko at Comparitech, the data was found on an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster. The data included ...

Some 3 million credit card numbers belonging to customers of Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc., the largest BBQ franchise in the U.S., are being offered for sale on the dark web after the company was hacked. The stolen credit card details were discovered on a dark web carding site called “Jokers Stash” by security researchers at Gemini ...

Bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. has been hacked and the bookseller warned customers their data has been stolen. Barnes & Noble said it was hacked Oct. 10. The details are somewhat vague and the company only said it was a “victim of a cybersecurity attack.” According to an email sent to customers, Barnes & Noble ...

Members of the transnational cybercrime group QQAAZZ have been indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on various charges relating to their involvement in providing services to high-profile cybercrime gangs. The QQAAZZ members indicted are alleged to have provided money-laundering services to groups behind Dridix, TrickBot and GozNym. TrickBot is the best-known of the three: ...

Ahead of its forthcoming initial public offering, cybersecurity firm McAfee LLC remains busy with the launch today of a new bundle for the education sector. The new products, McAfee Secure School Suites and McAfee MVISION Mobile Advanced, are being offered exclusively to McAfee’s education customers to ensure all devices are protected from threats such as ransomware ...

Alphabet Inc.-owned X Development LLC, known for its so-called “moonshot” technologies, today launched a new division that’s designed to improve farming. Called “Mineral,” the new division is the result of an X project previously referred to as “The Computational Agriculture Project.” Mineral launches with an autonomous robotic plant buggy designed to analyze crops. The buggy is powered by solar panels ...

Autonomous building platform startup PassiveLogic Inc. announced today it has raised $16 million in new funding to accelerate research and development. The Series A round was led by Keyframe Capital and Addition and included RET Ventures, A/O Proptech and NREP. Founded in 2016, PassiveLogic offers an autonomous building platform that provides a full-stack solution including tools to design, engineer, install, ...

Intel Corp. today unveiled a range of new security features for its forthcoming 10-nanometer Ice Lake chips that offer hardware security to provide additional protection of data. With Ice Lake, the third generation of Intel Xeon processors, Intel is doubling down on its “security first pledge” with the Intel Security Guard Extension technology deployed across ...