Bitcoin has plunged to its lowest price since early May 2017 as the ongoing chaos in the Bitcoin Cash community continues to spook investors. Analysts point the finger for the price drop in several directions, including a recent U.S. Securities and Commission initial coin offering settlement. But most rank the Bitcoin Cash hard fork as the ...

Proving that some hackers have no morals whatsoever, the website of the Make-A-Wish Foundation has been “cryptojacked” to install the increasingly popular cryptomining script. Discovered by Simon Kenin, a security researcher at Trustwave SpiderLabs, and publicized today, the hack involved unknown hackers accessing the Make-A-Wish website through a Drupal vulnerability dubbed Drupalgeddon 2. A Drupalgeddon 2 attack ...

Facebook Inc.-owned Instagram is deploying machine learning tools to crack down on inauthentic behavior including fake likes, follows and comments. “Recently, we’ve seen accounts use third-party apps to artificially grow their audience,” Instagram said in a statement today. “Every day people come to Instagram to have real experiences, including genuine interactions. It is our responsibility to ensure ...

Leading dark web hosting services provider Daniel’s Hosting has been hacked, taking about 6,500 sites offline. The free hosting service was targeted on Thursday in an apparent attack by hackers so gained root access via phpmyadmin and adminer to take control of the hosting server and then delete all of the sites. Founded by Daniel ...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it has settled a lawsuit with two companies that undertook unregistered initial coin offerings in 2017 as the market for ICOs continues to decline. The cases related to unregistered ICOs from CarrierEQ Inc., doing business as Airfox, which raised $15 million for an online advertising token, and ...

Instagram went down on Saturday morning after parent company Facebook Inc. was forced to fix a bug that exposed user passwords. The Information reported that Instagram informed affected users earlier in the week that their passwords may have been exposed to a security bug. The bug is said to have been tied to a feature rolled ...

Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has been linked to a company that among its various offerings was pitching a time travel cryptocurrency. Whitaker (pictured below), appointed to replaced Jeff Sessions by the Trump administration Nov. 7, sat on the advisory board of a company called Worldwide Patent Marketing from 2014 until the company was ...

Enterprise productivity software startup Airtable today said it has raised $100 million in new funding on a valuation of $1.1 billion to hire more people and expand into international markets. The Series C round was led by Thrive Capital, Benchmark and Coatue Management and included CRV, Caffeinated Capital and a number of individual investors. Founded in 2012, ...

Elon Musk’s internet-in-space project today received a boost, as SpaceX Corp. got approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to launch an additional 7,518 broadband satellites. The additional satellites, which are on top of the 4,425 for which SpaceX already has approval, form part of the Starlink project announced by Musk at an event in January 2015. Starlink is ...

The Infowars Store, the merchandise site of controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has been hacked and details of customers purchasing items on the site stolen. The discovery, made by Dutch security researcher Willem de Groot and first reported by ZDNet Wednesday, involved a Magecart infection. That’s the same malware behind the hack of Cathay Pacific Airway ...