A cyberattack that targeted a number of countries, in particular Iran, has presented users with an American flag and a message in English reading, “Don’t mess with our elections.” The attack, which at least according to the Iranian government took place Friday night, is said to have infiltrated 200,000 routers worldwide, including 3,500 in the ...

Blockchain analysis startup Chainalysis Inc. today said it has raised $16 million in new funding in a Series A round led by Benchmark Capital. Founded in 2014, Chainalysis offers a blockchain intelligence platform that aims to help customers prevent, detect and investigate cryptocurrency money laundering, fraud and compliance violations. Using the company’s platform, customers can visualize and investigate ...

Business intelligence startup Domo Inc. is planning to go public according to a report published Thursday. Recode, quoting sources, said Domo held an “organizational meeting” last week, which “generally serves as the formal kickoff in advance of an IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.” The report also claimed that the company is pursuing a confidential filing with ...

Microsoft Corp. today rolled out changes to its OneDrive cloud storage service and Office 365 aimed at providing users better protection from cybercrime. The changes are headlined by a new file recovery capability that allows customers to recover files going back as far as 30 days in the event of a ransomware attack. Although the ...

Russia has long been all over the place on cryptocurrency regulations, at times looking to ban them, then seemingly looking to legalize them. Now, the country has both embraced and seemingly spoken out against cryptocurrencies all in the same week. Likely driven by reports that the country was planning to regulate cryptocurrencies last month, Russia’s third-largest bank, ...

For the second month in a row, Microsoft Corp. has released a security-related patch ahead of its traditional “Patch Tuesday” release, addressing a critical vulnerability in its Windows Defender security software. The patch released by Microsoft today directly addresses a vulnerability called CVE2018-0986. It affects the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine, a core component of Windows ...

At least five separate U.S. pipeline companies have been forced to shut down their communications systems or have suffered downtime after an outside company used by them was compromised in the latest attack on the energy industry. The hack targeted Latitude Technologies Inc., a division of Energy Services Group LLC, a private equity-owned company that provides business ...

A new report from data security firm Varonis Systems Inc. has found that enterprises are often their own worst enemy when it comes to security by exposing confidential files and folders to employees who did not require access to them. The report, “Data Under Attack: 2018 Global Data Risk Report,” found that on average, 21 ...

Some 37 million customers of the Panera Bread Co. may have had their personal information stolen after it was disclosed that the cafe chain left the data exposed on its servers in plain text for all and sundry to download. The data breach was discovered by security researcher Dylan Houlihan. He said in a post on Medium ...

Intel Corp. has said in a microcode revision guidance that it will not be issuing patches for older chips against the Spectre v2 vulnerability that was first revealed in early January, potentially exposing millions of Intel users to hacking. In its guidance issued Monday, which added a “stopped” status to Intel’s “Production Status” for its Meltdown and Spectre ...