Roaming Mantis, a form of Android banking malware discovered in August, has been found to be rapidly evolving, adding new platforms, capabilities and even geographical targeting to its original form. The original form of the malware, also known as XLoader, was designed to attack via a domain name server hijack on an infected Wi-Fi router ...

Apple Inc. is hinting at changes to both its digital assistant Siri and its HomePod speaker lineup as its annual Worldwide Developers Conference approaches early next month. On the confirmed and perhaps quirky front, Apple users were reported Monday to be able to ask Siri “tell me about WWDC” and Siri responded with multiple answers. The first — ...

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today revealed yet another Spectre vulnerability that uses some of the same methods used in the first three variants but with a slight twist. The Spectre and related Meltdown vulnerabilities, first revealed in January, give malicious actors access to data running through the central processing unit chip, meaning that potentially any data ...

Adobe Systems Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire Magento Inc. for $1.68 billion as the venerable software-as-a-service provider seeks to add e-commerce support to its existing cloud marketing services. Founded in 2008, Magento offers a platform covering digital commerce, order management and business intelligence that it claims enables “both B2B and B2C shopping experiences ...

Microsoft Corp. Sunday said it has acquired Semantic Machines Inc., a Berkeley, California-based company that has built a conversational artificial intelligence platform that competes with the likes of Google Inc., for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2014, Semantic Machines has designed a new, language-independent technology platform that claims to go beyond understanding commands to understanding ...

Prominent music streaming service Tidal is facing trouble on multiple fronts. The service said Friday it’s investigating a “data breach” that resulted in a publication claiming the company was artificially inflating numbers at the same time it’s falling behind in paying artist royalties. The data breach relates directly to a report first published by newspaper Dagens Naeringsliv ...

A smartphone monitoring service designed to allow parents to track teenagers has been found to have exposed passwords, in plain text no less, on a publicly available Amazon Web Service’s S3 storage instance. First reported by ZDNet, the data breach relates to a service provided by TeenSafe Inc., a seven-year-old Santa Monica, California-based company that ...

Tesla Inc. is in the news again for all the wrong reasons: a new crash under investigation, potential money issues and Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk attacking the media. At the top of the list is yet another crash involving a Tesla vehicle with autopilot engaged. The crash, involving a Model S that on May 11 ran ...

PayPal Holdings Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire Swedish mobile payments startup iZettle AB in a $2.2 billion deal that will see PayPal directly take on onsite payment processing companies such as Square Inc. Founded in 2010, iZettle offers small businesses portable point-of-sale solutions and free sales overview tools, often earning in the description of being ...

Interest in smart home speakers is heating up: New sales figures show Amazon.com Inc. falling below 50 percent of the market for the first time as competitors led by Google Inc. have continued to grab more market share. According to new numbers from Strategy Analytics, 9.2 million smart home devices shipped in the first quarter. ...