Some 235 million profiles of users of Instagram, YouTube and TikTok compiled by a social media marketing company have been found online on a publicly exposed database. Discovered and publicized today by Bob Diachenko at Comparitech, the database was traced to a company called Social Data that sells data on social media influencers to marketers. The data, ...

A newly discovered sophisticated botnet campaign that is targeting government offices and enterprises was detailed today for the first time. Dubbed “FritzFrog” by security researchers at Guardicore Ltd., which reported the peer-to-peer botnet today, it’s believed to have been actively breaching SSH servers since January. The botnet executes a worm malware written in the Go ...

Airbnb Inc. has finally filed its paperwork for an initial public offering nearly a year after saying it had plans to do so in 2020. In a statement today, Airbnb said that it had confidentially submitted a Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission while noting that the number of shares to be offered and ...

Cloud cybersecurity firm Lacework Inc. today announced new continuous host vulnerability monitoring, preflight checks and continuous integration and deployment automation workflows to its security offering. The new features will allow existing customers to accelerate threat investigation and remediation as well as easily prioritize response to the most critical and active security threats, the company said. ...

Cybersecurity startup Cyware Labs Inc. said Tuesday it has raised $10 million in new funding to enhance its threat intelligence automation, threat response and security orchestration solutions. The Series A round was led by the Prelude Fund and Tanium and included Emerald Development Managers and Great Road Holdings. Founded in 2016, Cyware offers what it describes as ...

Google Maps, the world’s most popular navigational service, is being upgraded to make it easier for users to identify local landscapes. Starting this week, Google Maps will switch to a default view that includes visual improvements that bring “even more details and granularity to the maps, making it easier to understand what an area looks ...

Amid ongoing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump today endorsed the surprising bid by Oracle Corp. to acquire the U.S. operations of short-form video-sharing service TikTok from owner ByteDance Ltd. The president gave his support for the bid in an interview ahead of a rally in Yuma, Arizona. “I think Oracle ...

Canadian government services have been targeted in credential-stuffing attacks and about 15,000 accounts have been compromised, including those used to provide COVID-19 relief benefits. Those behind the attacks compromised 5,500 Canada Revenue Agency accounts, a service portal that enables Canadians to view and manage tax and benefits information along with more than 9,000 GCKey accounts, ...

The world’s largest cruise operator Carnival Corp. & plc has been hit by a ransomware attack and customer data stolen. The attack, detailed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory filing Aug. 15, was detected by the company the same day. The unnamed form of ransomware is said to have accessed and encrypted a portion of one ...

Free stock-trading app maker Robinhood Market Inc. has raised $200 million in new funding on an $11.2 billion valuation amid continuing reports that the company is planning an initial public offering in the coming months. The Series G round was led by D1 Capital Partners with a valuation significantly higher than the $8.6 billion valuation given ...