Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things.

Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days.

Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

Latest from Duncan Riley

REvil ransomware gang demands $50M ransom payment from Acer

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Hardware and electronics firm Acer Inc. has been struck by REvil ransomware with the ransomware gang demanding a ransom payment of $50 million. The REvil ransomware gang first announced on their data leak site March 18 that they had breached the Taiwanese …

Coinbase pays $6.5M to settle government investigation into false reporting

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc. has been fined $6.5 million by the U.S. Commodity Future Trading Commision to settle allegations that it undertook reckless false, misleading or inaccurate reporting as well as so-called wash trading between 2015 and 2018. Along with the …

FBI internet crime report details surge in cybercrime complaints in 2020

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has delivered its annual internet crime report based on information from 791,790 complaints in 2020, far surpassing 300,000 complaints in 2019. The report found that the top three crimes reported by victims in 2020 were phishing …

Apple reportedly to begin production of iPad Pro with mini-LED display in April

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. is on track to start production of a new iPad Pro with a mini-LED display in April, according to the latest investor note from famed Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. According to Kuo, the new iPad Pro, an upgrade from the …

XCodeSpy malware targets developers using Apple’s Xcode software

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

A recently discovered form of Mac malware is being used to target software developers who use Apple Inc.’s Xcode development environment for macOS. Detailed today by researchers at SentinelOne, XcodeSpy is a malicious Xcode project that installs a custom variant of the EggShell …

Security ratings firm SecurityScorecard raises $180M for global expansion

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Security ratings firm SecurityScorecard Inc. today said it has raised $180 million in new funding to accelerate its growth through new product lines, global expansion, a broadening partner ecosystem and additional functionality to assess and mitigate cybersecurity risk. The Series E round included Silver …

Investment platform startup Republic raises $36M to help investors exit early

APPS By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Investment platform startup Republic has announced it has raised $36 million in new funding to build a system for investors to sell their stakes sooner than the eight to 10 years it usually takes for startups to return money. The Series A round …

Israeli startup Vulcan Cyber raises $21M to roll out vulnerability remediation solutions

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Israeli software security startup Vulcan Cyber Ltd. has raised $21 million in new funding to support the rollout of new vulnerability remediation solutions for cloud and application security teams and deliver a new service. The Series B round was led by Dawn Capital and included Wipro …

Report finds ransomware and ransom payments continued to surge in 2020

SECURITY By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Not only did ransomware surge over 2020 but the average ransom payment also rose rapidly, according to a new report from Palo Alto Networks Inc.’s Unit 42 threat intelligence team and the Crypsis incident response team. The Ransomware Threat Report 2021, based …

SPAC merger will take eToro public with a valuation of $10.4B

BLOCKCHAIN By DUNCAN RILEY6 YEARS AGO

Social trading and investment marketplace eToro Group Ltd. is the latest company set to go public with an announcement today that it will merge with special-purpose acquisition company FinTech Acquisition Corp. V. As part of the deal, FinTech V will contribute $250 …

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Duncan Riley

Latest from Duncan Riley

REvil ransomware gang demands $50M ransom payment from Acer

Coinbase pays $6.5M to settle government investigation into false reporting

FBI internet crime report details surge in cybercrime complaints in 2020

Apple reportedly to begin production of iPad Pro with mini-LED display in April

XCodeSpy malware targets developers using Apple’s Xcode software

Security ratings firm SecurityScorecard raises $180M for global expansion

Investment platform startup Republic raises $36M to help investors exit early

Israeli startup Vulcan Cyber raises $21M to roll out vulnerability remediation solutions

Report finds ransomware and ransom payments continued to surge in 2020

SPAC merger will take eToro public with a valuation of $10.4B

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