Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has filed a lawsuit against Well Fargo & Co. and Wells Fargo N.A. after the bank decided to block all incoming wire transfers from Bitfinex made on its behalf. Bitfinex (iFinex Inc.) is claiming that Wells Fargo, while allowing its customers to transfer money from their accounts to Bitfinex, is blocking transfers ...

A new form of malicious code that targets Internet of Things devices with a Permanent Denial-of-Service attack may be more harmful than the infamous Mirai botnet. First discovered by security company Radware Ltd., the PDoS attack bot, dubbed “BrickerBot,” scans the Internet for Linux-based routers, bridges and similar devices. When it finds a compatible device, one using the common BusyBox toolkit ...

The mysterious Shadow Brokers hacking group has released a range of previously top secret National Security Agency hacking tools, ostensibly in response to the Trump administration’s decision to bomb Syria. The group first gained attention in August after it claimed to have hacked the Equation Group, a hacking group believed to be linked to the NSA. ...

Residents of Dallas received an unwelcome scare Friday night after hackers managed to access the city’s emergency system and set off all of the city’s warning sirens. The hack saw all 156 of the city’s emergency sirens go off between 11:40 p.m. Friday and 1:20 a.m. Saturday, causing fear and confusion, not to mention keeping ...

The maker of an Internet of Things garage door opener is gaining attention for all the wrong reasons after he disabled the installation of a customer who had left a negative review. Denis Grisak founded a company called SoftComplex that launched Garadget, an IoT device that allows users to control their garage doors remotely, following ...

A new report from researchers from the newly independent security firm McAfee LLC has found that Mac malware isn’t simply on the rise but skyrocketed 744 percent in 2016. The report found that most of the 460,000 forms of Mac malware McAfee detected were adware, or software that exposes users to ads, with growth in the category ...

Ride-hailing startup and Uber Technologies Inc. rival Lyft Inc. has raised $500 million in a new round, according to unconfirmed reports published Thursday. The New York Times claimed the round was raised at a valuation of $6.9 billion, while CNBC put the valuation at $7.5 billion. Lyft last raised money in January 2016 with a $500 million investment ...

A vulnerability in Wi-Fi chipsets manufactured by Broadcom Ltd. and used in Android and iOS devices allows attackers to gain easy access to the devices, according to newly published research. Details of the vulnerability, first published by Google’s Project Zero security team member Gal Beniamini, specify that a remote-code execution vulnerability lies in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi stack that ...

Following a move by the Japanese government to recognize bitcoin as a legal payment method, hundreds of thousands of retail outlets in the country look set to allow the use of the cryptocurrency as a payment option. Two major Japanese retailers have signed deals to accept bitcoin. Electronics retailer Bic Camera Inc. announced that its outlets will start ...

A Canadian man accused of being part of a Russian group that infamously hacked Yahoo Inc. in 2014 has made his first appearance in court to apply for bail prior to his extradition hearing. Karim Baratov, 22, was one of four people indicted U.S. Department of Justice in March, is accused of working for alleged Russian intelligence ...