Cybersecurity services and investigation firm Nisos Inc. has raised slightly over $6 million in new funding from Columbia Capital. As part of the deal, Jason Booma, a partner at Columbia, has joined Nisos’ board along with David Northington, most recently a managing director at Accenture. Nisos was founded in 2015 by former U.S. government intelligence operators. Co-founder ...

While most cryptocurrencies have seen ongoing price slides since the market peaked in January 2018, a relative newcomer is bucking trends with solid growth over the last few months as it seeks to take on Ethereum. Called TRON, the cryptocurrency and blockchain platform debuted in December 2017. It’s pitched as a decentralized platform that aims to ...

A new campaign using the Redaman malware has been detected in what could be the return of banking malware that first swept much of the world in 2015-2016. Redaman is a form of banking malware that uses an application-defined “hook” procedure to monitor activity in Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer and steal login details for ...

Despite seemingly constant reports of data breaches, a new study has found the introduction of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation has resulted in a reduction in data being both exposed and stolen from companies that are GDPR-compliant. The claim comes from Cisco Systems Inc.’s new Data Privacy Benchmark Study based on data from 3,200 security ...

A new report is warning of an increase in the number of multivector attacks against cloud infrastructure over the past few months particularly targeting Hadoop databases. Detailed by researchers at security firm Securonix Inc., the attacks often combine cryptomining, ransomware and botnet malware all in one and primarily exploit unpatched vulnerabilities on cloud infrastructure. The ...

As the bike-sharing market has become part of a broader proxy war for ride-hailing startups, some believe there is still room for new players in the market. Case in point: Wheels Labs Inc. just raised $37 million. The Series A round included Tenaya Capital, Bullpen Capital, Crosscut Capital, 3L Capital, Naval Ravikant and a number of wealthy ...

Zero-fee online stockbroker Robinhood Financial LLC is bringing its cryptocurrency business to New York after being awarded a New York BitLicense. Robinhood entered the cryptocurrency market in February 2018 with a product that offers zero-fee trading in bitcoin and Ethereum. But states where the service has been offered until now have been limited. A BitLicense ...

Cboe Global Markets has withdrawn its longstanding application for a rule change that would have allowed it to list a bitcoin exchange-traded fund. An ETF is a tradable security that tracks an index, a commodity, bonds or a basket of assets such as an index fund. In the case of a bitcoin ETF, the security ...

Some 24 million financial and banking documents have been exposed online by a financial company in yet another case of a misconfigured database. The leak involves Ascension, a data and analytics company for the financial industry based in Fort Worth, Texas, according to TechCrunch. Discovered by security researcher Bob Diachenko and published today, the misconfigured Elasticsearch database at ...

Anchorage Hold LLC, a new “crypto native” custodian, today emerged from stealth mode with $17 million in funding to expand operations and develop its platform. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowitz’s a16z and included Khosla Ventures and a number of individual investors. Based in San Francisco, Anchorage claims to be the first crypto-native ...