Facebook Inc. has filed a lawsuit against an Indian domain registrar for fraud relating to 12 domain names registered with the company. The lawsuit targets Compsys Domain Solutions Private Ltd., a private company in Mumbai that offers domain name and proxy services. The domain names in the lawsuit include facebook-verify-inc.com, instagramhjack.com and videocall-whatsapp.com, which Facebook alleges are designed to deceived people ...

Carmaker Honda Motor Co. has been forced to halt production in some global factories following a successful cyberattack. The form of the attack, not detailed by Honda and described today only as a virus, involved Snake ransomware, according to cybersecurity researchers. Because of the attack, production in Japan, the U.S., Turkey, India and Brazil ceased on ...

A group based in India has been exposed as being behind the hacking of thousands across the globe for at least seven years as part of a hack-for-hire scheme. Dubbed Dark Basin in a report into the group released today by The Citizen Lab, the group is tied to Indian company BellTrox InfoTech Services Pvt ...

Shares in online used-car seller Vroom Inc. more than doubled in their debut on the Nasdaq today as the market itself briefly broke 10,000 for the first time. Shares of Vroom, which filed to go public in May, opened at $22, above an initial price range of $18 to $20 per share. By the close of regular ...

A new report from Cobalt.io has found that there is a increasingly strong relationship between security and engineering in DevOps, in which software developers and information technology departments work closely together to create applications faster and better. The State of Pentesting: 2020 report, released today, explores the state of application security, including insights from a ...

A vulnerability found in billions of Universal Plug and Play devices allows attackers to steal data, scan networks and potentially cause a network to participate in the distributed denial-of-service attack. Dubbed CallStranger, the vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Yunus Çadirci in December and detailed on a new site dedicated to the vulnerability launched today. The vulnerability ...

Blockchain startup ConsenSys AG today launched a new compliance service designed to help exchanges and decentralized finance projects analyze trading activities of tokens issued on the Ethereum blockchain. Called Codefi Compliance, the automated service scans blockchains for regulatory compliance including anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism and “know your customer” guidelines and legal requirements. The ...

Airbnb Inc. may go ahead with its initial public offering this year after the company reported a remarkable turnaround in its business starting in mid-May as coronavirus pandemic restrictions started to lift. Airbnb, one of the most heavily hit companies during the pandemic, saw higher bookings between May 17 and June 3 in the U.S. ...

Amwell is set to go public, as CNBC today reported that the telehealth firm has confidentially filed its paperwork for an initial public offering. The filing follows the company, formally named American Well Corp., raising $194 million in May amid booming demand for its service during the COVID-19 pandemic. Founded in 2016, Amwell telemedicine offers services in the ...

Automation startup Hyperscience Inc. said today it has raised $60 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its automation platform. The Series C round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and included Tiger Global, Stripes, FirstMark Capital, Battery Ventures, Felicis Ventures, 3KVC, Gaingels and Penna & Company. The valuation on the round was not ...