A new form of ransomware called Zeppelin is targeting tech and health companies in a campaign that has security experts worried if it spreads further afield. Zeppelin is a variant on the Vega ransomware family and is being advertised on Russian websites as an attack-as-a-service offering. According to a report today by the Cylance Threat Research Team, ...

Cybersecurity platform startup Ordr Inc. said today it has raised $27.5 million in new funding to expand its reach worldwide, including growing its enterprise sales teams and recruiting more partners. The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures and included Wing Venture Capital, 1011 Ventures and Unusual Ventures. As part of the deal, Battery Ventures ...

Four men have been arrested in relation to running a cryptocurrency scam called BitClub Network that is alleged to have defrauded investors of $722 million. The men arrested — 37-year-old Matthew Brent Goettsche from Lafayette, Colorado, and 38-year-old Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks from Arvada, Colorado, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. A third man, 49-year-old ...

Troubled augmented reality company Magic Leap Inc. today shifted focus to enterprise AR less than a week after it was reported that the company had laid off dozens of staff because of low sales. The shift in focus comes after The Information reported Friday that the company had sold only 6,000 of its $2,295 Magic Leap One Creator Edition ...

Microsoft Teams has gone where no Microsoft Office app has gone before: Linux. Microsoft Corp. today expanded the reach of its already market-leading online collaboration service to the open-source operating system. The new Microsoft Teams for Linux has been released in public preview, bringing collaboration to the open-source community at work and in education institutions. The ...

Apple Inc. today released operating system updates across its range of products, iOS leading the way with a number of important security fixes and new features. iOS 13.3 along with iPadOS 13.3, introduced communication limits in its Screen Time monitoring service for the first time. The new controls enable parents to place limits on whom ...

Google LLC today released a new version of its popular Chrome browser complete with a range of new security features designed to make the browsing experience safer. For one, Chrome 79 integrates Password Checkup, a feature previously available as a plugin as standard in the browser. The service checks login details and tells users if their ...

Ripple Labs Inc.’s investment subsidiary Xpring today launched a new developer platform that has been designed as a one-stop shop for developers to manage everything they need when it comes to integrating blockchain payments. Xpring.io for developers, an extension of their previously announced Xpring Platform, is an open developer platform designed to remove the pain of integrating money into ...

Digital adoption platform provider WalkMe Ltd. said today it has raised $90 million in new funding. The Series G round was led by Vitruvian Partners and included previous investor Insight Partners. The new funding took WalkMe’s total amount raised to $307.5 million. Founded in 2011, WalkMe offers a digital adoption program for enterprises, primarily targeting its ...

Some 750,000 birth certificates have been found expose online in a yet another story of a company that didn’t secure its cloud storage, but this story has a twist: The provider was a third-party supplier of data to the U.S. government. The unnamed company, detected by Fidus Information Security Ltd. and first reported today by TechCrunch, ...