More than 20 million Google Chrome users may be using fake ad blocking software. That’s apparent after a security researcher found five examples that while actually blocking ads as advertised, stole user information and manipulated web browsing instead. The discovery, made by AdGuard Software Ltd. researcher Andrey Meshkov Tuesday, involved fake ad blocking Chrome extensions that ...

Seattle data gathering firm LocalBlox Inc. is the latest company to expose data via a misconfigured Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 storage instance — a lot of data. In this case, in involved 48 million records relating to social media information. Discovered by Chris Vickery at UpGuard Inc., as all good S3 data exposures are, the ...

Payment processing startup Stripe Inc. has launched a new version of its Radar fraud prevention system to improve its ability to take on fraudulent payments. Dubbed Radar 2.0, the updated system features new tools designed for enterprise organizations to tailor defenses for their individual company using machine learning. The enhanced protection uses hundreds of new signals that distinguish ...

The price of bitcoin dropped Tuesday after news broke that the New York Attorney General has launched an investigation into 13 cryptocurrency exchanges, although exactly what the office is investigating isn’t entirely clear. The price drop, surprising to some given that the market believed that bitcoin could rally after the U.S. Internal Revenue Service filing date Tuesday, ...

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has graciously extended the ability for people to file their annual tax returns to April 18 after its systems managed to go offline a lot of April 17, the day by which taxpayers were required to file their paperwork. The system crash, described by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as a “high-volume ...

A new report from security firm Sophos Group plc has found that information technology managers cannot identify nearly half of the traffic on their networks, representing a major risk to organizations and enterprises of all shapes and sizes. The “Dirty Secrets of Network Firewalls” report, based on a survey of 2,700 IT decision makers in 10 ...

Ransomware is becoming passé among hackers as cryptomining hacks surged to become the most popular form of malware detected in the first quarter, according to a new report out today from the Comodo Cybersecurity Threat Research Labs. The “Global Malware Report Q1 2018” report delved into 300 million malware incidents tracked by the security firm. It detected 28.9 ...

A YouTube guru who pitches initial coin offerings to a surprisingly willing audience has been hacked while livestreaming, the latest in a growing list of cryptocurrency-related heists. Ian Balina, referred to favorably by some as a “cryptocurrency investor, adviser and evangelist,” but by others as a “shillmeister” thanks to many of his YouTube videos pitching ...

Handyman-for-hire marketplace TaskRabbit Inc., acquired by flat-pack furniture retailer IKEA Group in September, is offline. The company told customers that it’s investigating a “cybersecurity incident.” Exactly what has occurred is not clear at this stage, but TaskRabbit took down both its website and its mobile app as a precaution, saying on Twitter that it’s working with ...

Coinbase Inc. today said it has acquired Earn.com Inc., a Silicon Valley startup that offers bitcoin payments to users who respond to emails and undertake small tasks. Although the figure on the deal was not officially disclosed, Recode pegs it at “slightly more than $100 million” while Axios prices it as “north of the $120 million ...