A new form of malware that steals bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency has been discovered by security firm Cyren Ltd. The as-yet unnamed malware is delivered via emails pretending to be notifications of online wire transfers, payment updates or swift transactions from banks such as Emirates NDB and DBS. The attachment to the email appears be a ...

A new survey from enterprise risk intelligence firm RiskVision Inc. and the Ponemon Institute has found that organizations are more afraid of a bad brand reputation than they are of cyberattacks. The survey, which polled 641 people in charge of risk management activities including those at a senior management level, found that 76 percent believed that ...

When most people think of drones they think of the unmanned aerial vehicles dashing through the sky. But if Google Inc. gets its way, drones may soon become an office mainstay as well. In a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the search giant is seeking a patent for what it describes as a ...

Snap Inc., best-known for its Snapchat app, is finally going public. The “camera company,” as Snap curiously calls itself in initial public offering documents filed Thursday, is looking to raise $3 billion on a valuation of between $20 billion and $25 billion. Either way, it would be the largest tech IPO since China’s Alibaba Group ...

GoPro Inc. is hoping its luck has turned for the better. On Wednesday, the company best known for its outdoor action cameras re-released its Karma drone for sale. The drone was infamously recalled back in November after a “small number” of Karma units “lost power during operation,” which is a polite way of saying the drones ...

Uptake Technologies Inc., a predictive analytics startup established by Groupon Inc. founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky, has raised $40 million late-stage funding round. The Series C round, raised from Revolution Growth, founded by AOL founder Steve Case, valued the company at $2 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Founded in 2014, Uptake’s predictive analytics Software-as-a-Service ...

Google Inc.’s long-held ambition to deliver safe self-driving cars is slowly coming to fruition, as new stats show the technology required far less human intervention in 2016. The stats, reported by Waymo Inc. (the company formerly known as Google’s self-driving car project) to California Department of Transportation, show a big drop in the number of disengagements. ...

Last year is widely regarded as a milestone period for data breached, and not in a good way. Just how bad was it? Pretty bad. A new study finds the year suffered the highest number of data breaches on record, breaking the previous record set in 2013. The study from Risk Based Security Inc. found that in ...

Distributed denial of service protection firm Radware Ltd. has acquired cloud-based security firm Seculert for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Seculert offers a software-as-a-service security platform that aims to fill gaps left by legacy perimeter defense and breach detection systems. It claims to protect enterprises from advanced threats by focusing on malicious outbound network traffic. The company’s ...

Employee protection solutions and cyber intelligence startup InfoArmor Inc., has taken an undisclosed amount of new funding from Boston-based growth equity investment firm Summit Partners. Along with the new funding, InfoArmor announced changes to its executive team. Current President and Chief Financial Officer John Schreiber will become chief executive officer, taking over from founder Drew Smith, who ...