People trying to download an illegal copy of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” are in for an unpleasant surprise, as copies on “torrent” sites that point to illicit copies of movies were found to include a persistent cryptocurrency miner as an unwanted bonus. Detailed today by researchers at Reason Cybersecurity Ltd., the illicit copies of the latest ...

In response to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation, Tesla Inc. today said it has disabled the ability to play video games while their vehicles are being driven. As reported yesterday, the NHTSA ODI investigation was launched following a complaint that the gaming feature available on Tesla models starting from 2017, could ...

Monongalia Health System Inc., a company that runs three hospitals in West Virginia, has been struck by a business email compromise attack. Described Dec. 21 by the company as a “data security incident,” the attack started with an email phishing incident that led to the theft of data and hijacked payments. The company first became aware ...

A vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Azure App Service has been found to expose hundreds of source code repositories. Discovered by security researchers at Wiz Inc. and detailed Dec. 21, the vulnerability, dubbed “NotLegit,” involves insecure default behavior in the Azure App Service. The vulnerability, which has existed since September 2017, exposed the source code of ...

The U.S. government has opened a preliminary inquiry into reports Tesla Inc. vehicles allow occupants to play video games while the car is in motion. The inquiry has been launched by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation following a complaint filed last month. Tesla customers have been able to play games in ...

The Chinese government has suspended a partnership with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. over the Apache Log4j vulnerability as a new open-source scanning tool has been released to help businesses identify affected services. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the suspension of an information-sharing partnership with Alibaba Cloud Computing on Wednesday local time. The ...

PitchBook Data Inc., the go-to company for data and research concerning technology companies, today released some interesting emerging technology predictions for 2022 — led, perhaps surprisingly, with agriculture. For the year ahead, PitchBook predicts, the agtech sector will experience record merger and acquisition activity. The reason: Precision agriculture sector is maturing, with software providers coalescing ...

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken today said it has acquired Stack LLC, a provider of noncustodial staking services. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed but Kraken described it as one of the largest crypto industry acquisitions to date. Founded in 2018, Staked helps investors earn yield from staking without relinquishing custody of their crypto assets. ...

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired ImagineOptix Corp., a developer of augmented and virtual reality optics technology designed to overcome optical and optoelectronics challenges in displays. The acquisition was first discovered Dec. 17 by optics analyst Karl Guttag and confirmed today by Meta to The Information. It’s not clear when Meta acquired the company. The website for ImagineOptix is ...

Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. dropped in after-hours trading today despite the company delivering better-than-expected earnings results. For the quarter ended Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported a loss of five cents per share on revenue of $184 million, compared with a loss of 23 cents per share on revenue of $218 million in the same quarter last ...