The Necurs botnet that made headlines last year for taking screenshots and gathering data from infected personal computers is back in the news with a new phishing campaign targeting banks. Detailed in a blog post by security firm Cofense Inc., the campaign started Wednesday and has so far targeted 2,700 bank domains and employees who ...

A teen in Melbourne, Australia, has appeared before a court for allegedly hacking Apple Inc. and stealing 90 gigabytes of data from its corporate server. Fairfax Media reported today that the teen, unnamed because of Australian law, appeared before the Children’s Court of Victoria Thursday local time on unspecified criminal charges relating to his hacking of the ...

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, the writer and philosopher George Santayana said. That’s what Twitter has just done with the outside app developers on the microblogging platform, making a familiar move that threatens to destroy them once again. Officially citing “technical and business constraints,” Twitter today said it has ...

Brian Kemp, the Republican former secretary of state in charge of Georgia’s elections who’s running for governor, has been sued in a lawsuit that accuses him of allowing millions of voter records to be exposed online. According to local media Wednesday, security researcher Logan Lamb discovered a voter registration database with 6.3 million records of ...

The world’s first blockchain-powered smart speaker opened up for preorders on Indiegogo today in an effort to bring an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to market against the likes of Google LLC and Apple Inc. Called Volareo, the smart speaker is claimed to be designed for those “who value creativity, privacy and independence” through a device that supports ...

Michael Terpin, founder of the investment group BitAngels, is suing AT&T Inc. for $223.8 million over the theft of about $24 million in cryptocurrency from his personal accounts. In his lawsuit filed today, Terpin alleges that AT&T is responsible for the theft because a company employee allowed cybercriminals to gain access to his mobile phone account. ...

After reporting a record profit in its first quarter, Uber Technologies Inc.’s financials have taken a hit again as the company today reported a massive loss and slowing revenue growth in its latest quarter. For the quarter ending June 30, Uber reported net revenue of $2.7 billion, up 51 percent from a year ago, with gross bookings ...

Advertising blockchain startup Lucidity today announced that Pithia Inc. has joined as a strategic investor to further the development of the company’s blockchain platform. Founded in 2017, Lucidity is developing a platform that aims to tackle issues in programmatic advertising such as data discrepancies, fraud and a general lack of transparency. It hopes to do that ...

Enterprise blockchain startup Axoni Communications Inc. today said it has raised $32 million in new funding. It plans to use the Series B round proceeds to enhance its data synchronization technology, expand its suite of infrastructure products and broaden the network of enterprises leveraging distributed ledgers. Founded in 2013, Axoni aims to overhaul global capital markets infrastructure ...

Intel Corp. today revealed details on three new vulnerabilities in its chips that are somewhat like Spectre, the set of security holes revealed early this year in most computer chips manufactured in the last 20 years. The new vulnerabilities, formally called L1 Terminal Fault but known as Foreshadow, targets speculative execution. As the name somewhat suggests, the feature involves ...