Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it has teamed with security firm Bitsight Technologies Inc. and others to take down the infamous Necurs botnet. The botnet, regarded as one of the world’s most prolific botnets, has infected more than 9 million computers worldwide and was used for a variety of illegal activities, primarily as a dropper for ...

Hacking and other security issues were the themes of this year’s RSA Conference, but it’s a new type of virus that the conference may be remembered: It turns out that at least two attendees of the conference were infected with the coronavirus. COVID-19 cases aren’t exactly new at this point, butthe interesting part is that ...

Information technology support solutions startup Electric.ai said today it has raised $14.5 million in new funding from 01 Advisors, the investment firm run by former Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Dick Costolo and Twitter Chief Operations Officer Adam Bain. Founded in 2016, Electric offers a fully automated IT platform that is pitched as providing small to ...

The City of Durham, North Carolina and the County of Durham are the latest victims of a ransomware attack, with services taken offline over the weekend as officials attempted to contain and fix the infection. The attack vector is believed to have involved phishing. Local reports said the Ryuk ransomware was used in the attack. The attack was detected ...

Popular online stock trading app Robinhood Market Inc. suffered its third major crash in a week, denying users the ability to trade on a day the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its single biggest point drop in history. Robinhood suffered its first major outage on Monday, March 2, as the Nasdaq soared, followed by another outage ...

Tech stocks were hammered today as equities markets overall suffered their worst day of trading since the global financial crisis — not surprisingly, thanks to heightened coronavirus fears and a plunging world oil price following a dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Key stock indices including the S&P 500 dropped 7% in the first four minutes of ...

As the spread of novel coronavirus continues to make headlines globally and events such as South by Southwest are canceled, scammers are taking advantage of the news through targeted phishing emails and scam websites. Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Inc. said Thursday they have observed a noticeable number of new websites registered with domain names ...

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a new warning that hackers are currently targeting users of Microsoft Officer 365 and Google G Suite in so-called business email compromise attacks. The warning, issued via a Private Industry Notification March 3, noted that the scams were costing U.S. businesses billions of dollars, according to a March 6 article ...

Nvidia Corp. has acquired SwiftStack Inc., the maker of an object data storage and management platform for data-intensive applications and workflows, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2011, SwiftStack offers cloud-based software to manage cloud storage for enterprises, simplifying on-premises infrastructure while enabling the scale of performance and capacity offered by the public cloud. The company started ...

“Internet of things” cybersecurity platform startup Ordr Inc. today said it has raised an additional $6 million in funding to help it implement preventative security programs for enterprise IoT and unmanaged devices. The funding was an extension of the Series B round of announced in December. Joining the round were the Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente Ventures. Founded in ...