A Russian national has been arrested for his attempt to bribe a Tesla Inc. employee to introduce ransomware at the electric car maker’s Nevada Gigafactory as part of an extortion scheme. The accused, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov, was arrested Aug. 22 in Los Angles while attempting to flee the country and has been detained in custody following ...

Slack Technologies Inc. has fixed critical vulnerabilities in its desktop app, but the compensation paid to a researcher who uncovered the vulnerabilities has come in for criticism from the security community. The vulnerabilities were discovered by security engineer Oskars Vegeris of Evolution Gaming in January and shared privately with Slack at the time. The vulnerabilities allowed an ...

Fortnite, the world’s most popular game, has come in for plenty of attention lately during the battle between creator Epic Games Ltd. and both Apple Inc. and Google LLC, but it’s also drawing extensive interest from hackers. A new report released today by Night Lion Security Chief Executive Officer Vinny Troia, “The Fortnite Underground Cybercrime Economy,” details the ...

A new version of the decade-old Qbot Trojan has been detected in the wild with new features, including the ability to hijack Microsoft Outlook email threads. Detailed today by security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the new version of Qbot is described as having become the malware equivalent of a Swiss Army knife. The new ...

Amazon.com Inc. today jumped into the fitness band market with Halo, a subscription service and fitness band of the same name that is designed to help customers improve their health. Amazon Halo combines a suite of artificial intelligence-powered health features, including the Amazon Halo App and the Amazon Halo band. That band uses multiple advanced ...

Shares in financial management and human capital management software firm Workday Inc. surged to a record high in after-hours trading today after the company reported better-than-expected numbers in its quarterly earnings report. For the quarter ended July 31, Workday reported revenue of $1.06 billion, up 19.6% from the same quarter of 2019. Analysts had been predicting $1.04 billion in revenue. ...

Ahead of a likely initial public offering later this year, Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is expanding its global operations with the launch of services in Russia. It’s the first time the company has offered its services in Europe. Didi debuted its ride-hailing service in Kazan, the capital and largest city of the Republic of ...

A joint global law enforcement operation said today it has brought down a large online piracy group that distributed movies online before their official release. The operation, which involved law enforcement agencies in 18 countries, including the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, targeted the ring leaders of ...

Organizational management platform startup ChartHop Inc. announced today it has raised $14 million in new funding to expand its platform built to eradicate manual human resources tasks and enable leaders to make data-driven decisions. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z and included Abstract Ventures, Basement Fund, CoFound Partners, Company Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, the a16z ...

New Zealand’s stock exchange was forced to halt trading for several hours Wednesday following a sustained cyberattack, the second in two days. In a statement, the exchange said it was targeted by a volumetric distributed-denial-of-service attack from offshore that affected its NZX system connectivity. NZX decided to halt trading. A DDoS attack aims to disrupt service by ...