Nasdaq-listed U.S. laser company IP Photonics Corp. has been hit by a ransomware attack that shut down saw its information technology systems worldwide. First reported Friday by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware attack involved the RansomExx strain of ransomware, sometimes also dubbed Ransom X. RansomExx was first detected in July when Japanese technology company Konica Minolta Inc. ...

A judge in California this weekend blocked the Trump administration ruling that Chinese social media app WeChat should be removed from the Apple Inc. App Store and the Google LLC Play Store on First Amendment grounds. Though it’s not well-known in the west, WeChat has more than 1.2 billion users as of the first quarter of ...

Google LLC is officially banning “stalkerware” apps from the Google Play Store effective Oct. 1, but the apps can still be offered if they’re pitched as tracking children or for enterprise purposes under some conditions. Stalkerware apps allow a third party to track the activity of the device user. Tracking can included everything from location ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is reported to be in talks to divest part of its shares in Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing Technology Co., according to a report Thursday. Bloomberg, referencing people familiar with the matter, said the private discussions are being led by Uber Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi, with both Didi and SoftBank Group Corp. ...

A German woman has died after being diverted from a hospital that had suffered a ransomware attack, allegedly the first death attributed directly to such an attack. The ransomware attack targeted the Duesseldorf University Hospital Sept. 10, resulting in critical systems at the hospital being shut down. As a result of the outage, patients seeking emergency care ...

TikTok could be heading toward an initial public offering subject to the deal between parent company ByteDance Ltd. and Oracle Corp. getting approval by the Trump administration. The claim comes from CNBC, which reported today that TikTok Global would be listed on a U.S. stock exchange with Oracle owning a minority stake — less than 20% ...

A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the Bluetooth software stack has the potential to expose billions of devices to hacking. Detailed by researchers at Purdue University, the new vulnerability has been dubbed BLESA, short for Bluetooth Low Energy Spoofing Attack. The vulnerability relates to the reconnection process in the BLE software stack. That process is ...

Workplace collaboration startup Air Labs Inc. said today it has raised $12 million in funding to hire more people and invest more in product development. The Series A round was led by Tiger Global and included Lerer Hippeau, WndrCo, Slack Ventures, Red Sea Ventures and Advancit Capital along with individual investors Joe Thomas, Jenny Fleiss, Nic Jammet and Brian ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted five Chinese nationals, two Malaysians and two Iranian nationals concerning alleged state-sponsored hacking campaigns. The Chinese nationals and the Malaysians were alleged today to be linked to a hacking group known by various names in the cybersecurity community, including APT41, Wicked Panda and Winnti. Two of the defendants named in ...

Apple Inc. has accused Epic Games Ltd.’s lawsuit as being a “campaign to reinvigorate interest in Fortnite” in its latest filing in the battle between the two companies. The 37-page filing Tuesday was filed in opposition to Epic’s application for a preliminary injunction that would force Apple to restore Fortnite to the App Store. Apple does not hold ...