A new Swedish company is taking bitcoin to Iran with a new investment service that allows users to invest in equities using the cryptocurrency on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Brave New World Investments AB is pitching the service as a way for European bitcoin holders to invest in Iranian equities since the lifting of some ...

A new bot is checking the balance of electronic gift cards in order to defraud legitimate card owners, cybersecurity firm Distil Networks Inc. has discovered. Dubbed GiftGhostBot, the advanced persistent bot launches brute-force attacks against online retailers that accept gift cards. The bot queries randomly generated gift card numbers against the targeted e-commerce sites to see if ...

Uber Technologies Inc.’s run of bad news just won’t stop. This weekend, the ridesharing giant was forced to suspend its self-driving vehicle program after one of its vehicles was involved in an accident. (Update: On Monday, Uber said it’s resuming the program in San Francisco, partly because it doesn’t currently transport passengers, but activities remain ...

Microsoft Corp. has removed the search function from its Docs.com service after it was revealed that the feature allowed anyone to search and view documents from other users. The security flaw, first identified by Twitter users over the weekend, allowed anyone to use the search box on the site to access publicly accessible documents and files stored ...

Southeast Asian Uber Technologies Inc. rival GrabTaxi Holdings Pte Ltd. is raising a new round of $1.5 billion, according to a report published late Friday. Bloomberg, quoting people familiar with the matter, claims that the round will be led by Japanese giant SoftBank Group Corp. to the tune of $1 billion but notes that it isn’t clear ...

Games crowdfunding site Fig Publishing Inc. has taken an interesting path in raising money by giving fans and investors the ability to buy shares in forthcoming title “Wasteland 3.” The game, a followup to the successful “Wasteland 2” from inXile Entertainment, has already raised $3.1 million in funding and investment reservations from 17,707 fans, who gave their ...

Bitcoin scams have surged as the cryptocurrency has hit record highs, according to research published Thursday by the security firm ZeroFOX Inc. The research found that along with traditional scams such as phishing attempts and pyramid schemes, new types of financial scams involving bitcoin are actively spreading across social networks. There is a wide array ...

The U.S. Justice Department is reported to be preparing a case that would accuse North Korea of being behind the hacking and subsequent theft of $81 million from Bangladesh’s Central Bank in 2016. First reported in February last year, Bangladesh Bank initially alleged that $100 million had been stolen through unknown parties from their foreign exchange account at the ...

Microsoft Corp. wants a bigger slice of the connected-car market, offering a new program that allows vehicle manufacturers to license the company’s technology in their vehicles. The first to take advantage of the new offering is Japanese auto giant Toyota Motor Corp., which has signed a deal that gives it access to navigation, entertainment and voice recognition technology that ...

A new release from WikiLeaks of Vault7 files has revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency had developed a range of tools to infect Apple products including the iPhone and MacBook line. The files, which cover the period of 2009 through to 2013, include details of a CIA program called “Sonic Screwdriver” which is described as a “mechanism ...