Russian hackers have targeted and obtained secret data on military drones and other sensitive U.S. defense technology, according to a report published Tuesday by the Associated Press. The report details efforts by Fancy Bear, the notorious Russian hacking group previously tied to attacks against U.S. lawmakers and the Democratic National Committee, to target and successfully infiltrate military contractors ...

In a seeming coincidence, Twitter Inc. suspended the account of a prominent Bitfinex critic on the same day that Gab, a Twitter alternative that claims to be dedicated to free speech, announced it had raised $4.8 million in a crowdfunding campaign. On the Twitter front, Bitfinex’ed was suspended without explanation. The Twitter account, run by an anonymous critic ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has led a global effort to shut down a huge online cybercrime forum, resulting in the arrest of both people involved in running it and those who used its services. The site, called the Infraud Organization or Infraud for short, was established in 2010 as a forum on the shady ...

The price of bitcoin surged Tuesday after presentations by U.S. regulators at a Senate hearing on cryptocurrencies delivered no surprises. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Jay Clayton, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, told the Senate banking committee that they needed new powers to protect consumers from fraud on cryptocurrency exchanges. But they ...

Networking company Netgear Inc., best known for its consumer routers, is spinning off its internet-connected camera business and taking it public, adding to a growing list of initial public offerings slated for the year ahead. The business, called Arlo Technologies Inc., offers a lineup of home and business security cameras that offer high-definition video quality, two-way ...

Snap Inc. surprised the market with its fourth-quarter results Tuesday as the Snapchat app maker reported renewed growth in user numbers and revenue. Revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 jumped 72 percent, to $285.7 million, from a year earlier, roughly $30 million above what analysts had predicted. Average daily users for Snapchat also rose from a ...

After a quiet winter, a new season of misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. storage buckets takes us across the Atlantic to the bright lights of Paris with a company catering to social media stars exposing their details online. Discovered once again by security researcher Chris Vickery at UpGuard Inc., the Mark Burnett of the story, the exposed ...

A new botnet that targets Android devices to mine for cryptocurrency is spreading rapidly in the wild, just days after more than a half-million Windows personal computers were reported hijacked by the Smominru botnet for similar purposes. The new botnet, dubbed ADB.Miner by security researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab, uses a wormlike process to spread itself across Android devices, including phones, smart ...

Bitcoin continued its bear run in Monday trading as U.S. regulators prepared to call on Congress for more oversight and new regulations on cryptocurrency markets. The regulation call is set to come from Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Jay Clayton, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, who are scheduled to ...

Popular grammar-checking startup Grammarly Inc. has been forced to issue an urgent update to its browser extensions after they were discovered to be exposing user data to malicious websites. The security bug, discovered by security researcher Tavis Ormandy, affected both the Chrome and Firefox Grammarly browser extensions and leaked authentication tokens that allowed any website a Grammarly browser extension user ...