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 ...

Shares in DocuSign Inc. rose in after-hours trading today after the electronic signature platform provider topped earnings expectations in the first quarter thanks to growing demand during the COVID-19 pandemic. For the quarter ended April 30, DocuSign reported revenue rose 39% from a year ago, to $297 million. Profit before certain costs such as stock ...

State-sponsored hackers are actively targeting the U.S. presidential campaigns of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, according to a senior Google security researcher. The claim come from Shane Huntley, the head of the Google Threat Analysis Group. He wrote on Twitter that the Google team had seen a Chinese advanced persistent threat group targeting Biden ...

Security researchers from the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team along with KPMG’s U.K. Cyber Response Services have discovered a new form of ransomware that’s being used by attackers. Dubbed “Tycoon,” the ransomware is uniquely Java-based and targets both Windows and Linux systems. Believed to have been first used in December, Tycoon leverages an obscure Java image format to ...

The prolific hacking group REvil has started auctioning off sensitive data stolen from companies in its various ransomware attacks. The group, also known as Sodinokibi, is auctioning the stolen data through a dark web site dubbed the “Happy Blog” that offers eBaylike auctions. The first cache of stolen data offered for auction is from Canadian agricultural ...

The San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System has suffered a data breach, with data belonging to some 74,000 members likely stolen. The data breach came via the third-party web development firm 10up Inc. which hosts the website for SFERS. 10up placed a database of 74,000 members dating from August 2018 on a test server that was hacked Feb. ...

A contractor for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has allegedly been hit in a ransomware attack and the group behind it claims to have stolen company files. The apparent attack comes from the DopplePaymer ransomware group and involves Digital Management LLC, a Bethesda, Maryland-based firm that offers business intelligence and cybersecurity services to ...