A new variant of the infamous Locky ransomware has been detected in the wild rapidly infecting computers in a massive new phishing campaign, according to newly published research. Barracuda Networks Inc. made the initial discovery, saying in a blog post that it has seen roughly 20 million of attacks using the new Locky variant as of Tuesday ...

In a bizarre turn of events, consumer credit reporting agency Equifax Inc. has publicly suggested that those affected by its huge hacking should visit a fake site for further information. The recommendation to visit the fake site came via a series of tweets on the official Equifax Twitter account. The tweets directed those affected to the fake site ...

Tesla Inc. has teamed up with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to design a custom-made chip dedicated to artificial intelligence processing in self-driving cars, according to a report published Wednesday. CNBC, quoting sources, claimed that the progress toward building a custom Tesla AI chip had reached the car maker, which has received back “samples of the first ...

Avril Lavigne may have peaked in popularity during the early parts of the 2000s, but the Sk8terboi singer remains highly popular among hackers: She topped McAfee Inc.’s annual list of the Most Dangerous Celebrities, a list that indexes celebrity-themed malicious websites. The list, now in its 11th year, indexes malicious websites using celebrities to attract web browsers ...

Communists may not be residing under people’s beds, but online banking customers are being warned to be aware of another threat in the form of a new banking trojan virus dubbed “Red Alert 2.0.” First detected in the wild by security researchers at SfyLabs BV, the trojan shares similar features to other Android banking trojans, ...

Uber Technologies Inc. is reported to have launched a review into whether it broke antibribery laws in Asia following news in August that it was being investigated on those grounds by U.S. Department of Justice. Bloomberg reported that Uber has employed law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP to examine foreign transaction records and to interview employees “raising questions about why some ...

Swedish mobile payments startup iZettle AB has raised $36 million in debt financing from the European Investment Bank in a new push to develop next-generation fintech solutions to complement its existing mobile payments platform. Founded in 2010, iZettle offers small businesses portable point-of-sale solutions and free sales overview tools. Competing with the likes of PayPal Inc. and ...

Google LLC is planning to step up to the plate in its battle with Amazon.com Inc. for the smart home speaker market with a new, smaller version of Google Home set to be revealed at a company event scheduled for Oct. 4. Rather unimaginatively named the Google Home Mini, the new device is said to offer the same ...

Much to the dismay of some, the World Wide Web Consortium has approved a digital rights management standard for Hypertext Markup Language 5, the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications. The new standard, described as “Encrypted Media Extensions,” is an application programming interface that allows plugin-free playback of protected or encrypted ...

The price of bitcoin surged past $4,000 in trading Monday following a market slump driven by a decision by China to ban bitcoin exchanges, as well as negative comments about the cryptocurrency from JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon. The ban in China, reported by SiliconANGLE on Sept. 11 but seemingly mostly unnoticed by ...