BlueKeep, a vulnerability found in older versions of Microsoft Corp.’s Remote Desktop Protocol, has been spotted for the first time being used in the wild as part of a new hacking campaign. The campaign was detected via Honeypots, a decoy computer system for detecting hacking campaigns set up to detect a BlueKeep attack by security researcher ...

Airbnb Inc. has banned “party houses” from its service following a shooting at an Airbnb rental on Thursday in Orinda, California, that resulted in the death of five people. The ban, coming ahead of Airbnb’s planned initial public offering in 2020, was announced by Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky Saturday on Twitter. Chesky said the ban ...

The dedicated foray by Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, into the U.S. market is going well as the company said today that its Binance.US operation is increasing volumes and it announced support for debit cards. Binance entered the U.S. market with a dedicated service Sept. 24 with a platform that offered American citizens no-fee ...

Sites belonging to Web.com Group Inc., including Network Solutions, have been compromised with potentially millions of customer records stolen. The data breach was detected Oct. 16 and included customer information on Web.com, NetworkSolutions.com and Register.com. The data included names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and information about the services used by each user but did not ...

In an interesting twist on traditional phishing campaigns, hackers are using fake voicemails in an effort to trick users into handing over their Office 365 credentials. First spotted and publicized Wednesday by security researchers at McAfee LLC, the phishing campaign starts with targets, usually mid- or high-level managers, receiving a legitimate-looking email saying that they have ...

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is believed to be behind a new form of malware that’s targeting SMS text messages on servers run by telecommunications companies. Detailed today by security researchers at FireEye Mandiant, the MESSAGETAP malware, from Chinese advanced persistent threat group APT41, was first spotted earlier this year. It was deployed against a telecommunications network provider in ...

Some 16 million passwords have been added to “dark web” sites over the last 12 months, according to a report published by cybersecurity firm ImmuniWeb. The passwords, many of which had been obtained off the back of a 50% increase in data breaches in the first quarter of 2019, came via a stunning 4 billion ...

Ride-hailing firm Lyft Inc. beat Wall Street earnings predictions in its third quarter, but like the previous quarter, the company continues to bleed money even it’s less than expected. Lyft reported a loss of $463.5 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, nearly double its loss a year ago. The loss came in at $1.57 per ...

Initial coin offering platform provider CoinList Capital LLC today said it has raised $10 million in new funding to launch a new exchange platform. The money came from Twitter Inc. and Square Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, Collaborative Fund and Polychain Capital. Founded in 2017 as a spinoff from AngelList, CoinList primarily offers a cloud-based ...

Twitter Inc. today announced that it will ban all political advertising starting in late November, cutting off a potentially large revenue stream for the microblogging service in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. In a series of tweets, Twitter Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey explained the move was being motivated by a belief ...