A Texas school district is out $2.3 million after a targeted phishing campaign led to money being transferred to accounts controlled by those behind the scam. Details are a little slim, but it’s believed that the money was stolen over three transactions and involved an employee from the Manor Independent School District being deceived into altering ...

NortonLifeLock Inc. today said it has sold its ID Analytics business to LexisNexis Risk Solutions for $375 million as the company divests itself of unwanted business units following its separation from the now Broadcom Inc.-owned Symantec enterprise security business. ID Analytics became part of NortonLifeLock after being acquired by LifeLock Inc. in 2012 for an undisclosed sum. Symantec Inc. then acquired LifeLock for ...

The end of Windows 7 support is nigh as Microsoft Corp. will drop support for the operating system Tuesday for consumers. Business customers can pay for ongoing support, chiefly for security updates, but the decision to pull it for consumers was a long time coming. Windows 7 was launched in 2009 and was later replaced ...

Visa Inc. today announced it has signed a deal to acquire financial technology startup Plaid Financial Inc. for $5.3 billion in an all-cash deal. It’s one of largest tech acquisitions in recent times, beating PayPal Inc.’s acquisition of Honey Science Inc. for $4 billion in November. Founded in 2013, Plaid offers a financial application programming ...

More than 1 billion medical images are believed to be exposed online as medical practitioners continue to upload them to unsecured databases. Discovered by German cybersecurity firm Greenbone Networks, the exposure follows a similar report from the company in September that detailed 24 million medical records on 590 online medical image archive systems. The data, which ...

Hackers have been found using a malicious Microsoft Office 365 app to gain access to user accounts in the latest campaign targeting the popular service. Detailed last month by security researchers at PhishLabs but only recently picked up by other security experts, the campaign is described as using a previously unseen tactic in an effort to gain access to ...

Iranian hackers have hit Bahrain’s national oil company as a new report finds that Iranian state-sponsored hackers have also been targeting U.S. power utilities. The attack in Bahrain targeted oil company Bapco Dec. 29 and is said to have involved the use of the new strain of data-wiping malware. Dubbed “Dustman” by the Saudi Arabia National ...

Cheap smartphones sold in the U.S. through a government assistance program have been found to include unremovable malware. The malware was discovered by security researchers at Malwarebytes Inc., which publicized it Thursday. The phones are offered for sale by Assurance Wireless by Virgin Mobile via the Lifeline Assistance program, a U.S. Federal Communications Commission-funded program that offers communications services ...

Electric scooter company LimeBike Inc. today said it’s laying off about 14% of its workforce and ceasing operations in 12 markets as the company attempts to become profitable for the first time. The venture capital-backed startup, once reported to be an acquisition target of Uber Technologies Inc., will lay off approximately 100 employees, although Lime ...

A newly detected form of ransomware is not only targeting networks but in the case of a successful infection also encrypts all connected devices. “Snake” ransomware was first detected by security researchers at MalwareHunterTeam last week and detailed by “ethical hacker” Vitali Kremez to reverse-engineer it. Kremez describes Snake as containing a higher level of obfuscation ...