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Tween retailer Claire’s Stores Inc. is the latest victim of a Magecart attack in which the payment details of customers were stolen. Discovered by security researchers at Sansec BV and published today, the attack began in the last week of April and …
Niche dating app user data found exposed on misconfigured cloud instance
The records of hundreds of thousands of users of a range of niche data apps have been exposed online in the latest case of a misconfigured cloud instance. Discovered by security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar at vpnMentor and published today, the …
Former eBay employees arrested over cyberstalking campaign against critics
Six former eBay Inc. employees have been arrested over a cyberstalking campaign in which they targeted a couple who had been critical of the company. The employees are alleged to have started cyberstalking the couple from Natick, Massachusetts, during 2019. The unnamed …
Intel launches new Control-Flow Enforcement Technology to protect against malware attacks
Intel Corp. today announced a new security capability called Control-Flow Enforcement Technology that delivers processor-level security structures to protect against common malware attack methods that have been a challenge to mitigate with software alone. First available on Intel’s Tiger Lake platform with …
Enterprise data storage startup Infinidat raises additional funding
Enterprise data storage Infinidat Ltd. today announced it has raised an undisclosed sum of new funding. The Series D round came from existing investors TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs, Claridge Israel, ION Crossover Partners and Moshe Yanai, founder of Infinidat. Founded in 2011, Infinidat offers software-focused …
Microsoft warns of cryptomining attacks targeting Kubeflow on Kubernetes
Microsoft Corp. has issued a warning that hackers are targeting Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes, to install cryptomining code. The attacks were first detected in April and involve hackers targeting Kubernetes nodes running Kubeflow. The nodes were not so much misconfigured …
Enterprise automation platform startup Jiffy.ai raises $18M
Enterprise automation platform startup Jiffy.ai said today it has raised $18 million in new funding to deliver on its vision, hire more people and speed up its product roadmap. The Series A round in the company, formally called Paanini Inc., was led by Nexus …
Controversial data analytics firm Palantir reportedly preparing to file for IPO
Big-data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. is preparing to file for an initial public offering in the coming weeks, according to multiple reports published today. Bloomberg reported that the company, founded by Peter Thiel, is preparing to register a confidential S-1 filing with …
Unstoppable Domains launches blockchain-based decentralized blogging service
Blockchain startup Unstoppable Domains Inc. today launched a decentralized blog or dBlog service that’s hosted on the InterPlanetary File System and attached to the company’s .crypto domains. Designed to allow .crypto domain holders to build their own blog quickly, the dBlogs do not …
Cyber risk management startup Axio raises new funding
Cybersecurity risk management startup Axio Global Inc. announced today it has raised new funding to accelerate platform innovation and expansion into new industries including the financial sector. The amount of the Series A1 round was not disclosed. It was led by Fin Venture Capital and …