Ryuk, a form of ransomware that first appeared last year and was attributed to North Korea, may actually be the work of a Russian criminal syndicate. That’s according to research published late last week by Crowdstrike, FireEye and McAfee Labs, which all came to the same conclusion in separate reports. An attack that delayed the printing of several major U.S. newspapers ...

After a somewhat stable start to the year, the price of bitcoin plunged by nearly 10 percent in the last 24 hours in what may be a return to the bear market of 2018. Bitcoin, which had been trading in a band of $3,800 to the low $4,000s over the last week, dropped from $4,018.41 ...

A security researcher has uncovered a publicly exposed MongoDB instance that includes the resumes of 202 million Chinese nationals, but in a new twist, it’s unknown who owns the database. Discovered by Bob Diachenko of Hacken in late December, the MongoDB instance included 854.8 gigabytes of data with no password/login authentication needed to view and access ...

Kitchenware maker Oxo International Ltd. has disclosed that it was the victim of hacking that resulted in customer credit card data stolen. In a breach disclosure letter filed to comply with California law, the company said that it had been compromised between June 2017 and October 2018. The hack, confirmed Dec. 17, was a data security incident involving ...

In a surprise move, Ford Motor Co. today announced it will shut down its commuter shuttle service Chariot because the business isn’t sustainable. The closure will take place on different dates in different locations. The London Chariot service will close Jan. 25, its New York and San Francisco services on Feb. 1 and its enterprise ...

Enterprise cloud financial planning software firm Vena Solutions Inc. said today it has raised $115 million in new funding to scale up its operations. The Series D round was led by JMI Equity and included existing investor Centana Growth Partners. Founded in 2011, Vena offers cloud-based financial planning and analysis software that mixes Excel with a ...

The new year has ushered in a new range of Android malware, as Google LLC was forced to remove 85 nefarious apps uncovered Tuesday by security researchers at Trend Micro Inc. The apps, disguised as 85 game, TV and remote control simulator apps on the Google Play Store, contained a code for a recently discovered ...

The arrest of a U.S. National Security Agency contractor in 2016 over the theft of top-secret documents came about thanks to a tipoff from Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, according to a new report. Politico, citing two anonymous sources familiar with the investigation, said Kaspersky Lab employees passed information on Harold T. Martin III to ...

Security firm Sophos Group plc today said it has acquired Avid Secure Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that offers artificial intelligence-based cloud security tools. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Coming into the acquisition, Avid Secure was privately owned and had not raised any venture capital. Founded in 2017, Avid Secure provides an AI-based ...

A 20-year-old student has allegedly confessed to hacking and then publishing private data relating to more than 1,000 German politicians and journalists. The hack first came to light in December when the hacker, using the name G0d, started publishing data, including photos, phone numbers, correspondence and credit card data on a Twitter account that was later ...