Venture capital investments in the first quarter of 2020 stayed strong, but with the COVID-19 pandemic causing economic chaos, investment levels are likely to weaken for the rest of the year. That’s according to the quarterly PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report released today. For the quarter ending March 31 there were 2,298 venture capital deals totaling $34.2 billion. Those figures are ...

WordPress sites using the popular WooCommerce plugin are being targeted by credit card skimming code, the first time that Magecart-like attacks have been discovered targeting the content management system. Discovered late last week by security researcher Ben Martin at Sucuri, the attacks involve the injection of JavaScript to steal both the credit card number and card security ...

The account details of more than 500,000 users of Zoom Video Communications Inc. have been found for sale on the dark web, the shady part of the internet reachable with special software, in the latest security concern surrounding the company. Discovered by security researchers at Cyble, the credentials include email address, password, personal meeting URL and ...

San Francisco International Airport has been hacked, with data stolen from two subsidiary sites, SFOConstruction.com and SFOConnect.com. The attack occurred last month and involved the theft of login credentials such as usernames and passwords. SFO does not refer to those passwords being encrypted, so it can be presumed that the passwords may have been in plain text. ...

Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet are no longer. Google LLC has rebranded the enterprise chat and meeting services in G Suite as Google Chat and Google Meet, amid surging use of them during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strangely, Google did not actually announce the name change, instead publishing a blog post that explained Meet’s security and ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Teams has broken a new record during the coronavirus pandemic with 2.7 billion meeting minutes in one day. The figure is said to be an increase of 200% from 900 million meeting minutes on March 16 and is in part credited to a surge of 183,000 “tenants” in 175 countries using Teams for ...

Foreign currency exchange provider Travelex is reported to have paid $2.3 million in bitcoin to restore its network after hackers launched a ransomware attack against the company Dec. 31. The Wall Street Journal reported today that Travelex decided to pay the 285 bitcoin ransom to the REvil ransomware gang on the advice of experts. REvil had threatened ...

Crowdsourced cybersecurity platform startup Bugcrowd Inc. today announced it has raised $30 million in new funding to accelerate the expansion of its platform. The Series D round was led by Rally Ventures and included unnamed new and existing investors. Founded in 2012, BugCrowd connects companies and their applications to security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. At ...

A database belonging to marketing automation platform provider Maropost Inc. has been found exposed online, complete with 95 million individual customer email records and email logs. Discovered by researchers at Cybernews, the database included more than 19 million unique email records belonging to about 10,000 clients. Those clients include the New York Post, Shopify Inc., ...

Accenture plc today said it has acquired the privately held cybersecurity firm Revolutionary Security for an undisclosed price. The company had raised a single round of $2.5 million prior to acquisition. Founded in 2016, Revolutionary Security offers a range of cybersecurity products including risk assessment, breach and attack simulation testing, insider threat assessments and framework bases assessment. The ...