Snapchat’s corporate parent disclosed Thursday that its ad sales are being hurt by a privacy crackdown that rolled out on Apple’s iPhones earlier this year, raising investor fears that the app’s financial growth is going into a tailspin. The revelation in Snap Inc.’s third-quarter earnings report sparked a sell-off in after-hours trading that could foreshadow ..
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A total of 17 types of vulnerabilities, including many rated critical and high severity, have been found by researchers in the Versiondog data management product made by AUVESY. The vulnerabilities were discovered by employees of industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty and responsibly disclosed to Germany-based AUVESY, which specializes in data management for automated production. The vendor ..
Google says it has disrupted phishing attacks in which threat actors were attempting to use cookie theft malware to hijack YouTube accounts and abuse them to promote cryptocurrency scams. As part of these campaigns, which have been ongoing since 2019, hackers recruited on a Russian-speaking forum targeted thousands with phishing emails that promised fake collaboration ..
Aura, a Burlington, MA-based company that provides cybersecurity solutions for consumers, has announced raising $200 million in a Series F funding round. The funding, which values Aura at $2.5 billion post money, brings the total raised by the firm to $650 million. Aura achieved unicorn status earlier this year, when it raised $150 million from ..
A rootkit named FiveSys is able to evade detection and slip unnoticed onto Windows users’ systems courtesy of a Microsoft-issued digital signature, according to security researchers with Bitdefender. To prevent certain types of malicious attacks, Microsoft introduced strict requirements for driver packages that seek to receive a WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) digital signature, and ..
Sacramento, CA-based Rhombus Systems – a provider of smart security cameras – has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Cota Capital. Existing investors MSD Partners, Lemnos Labs, and Promus Ventures also participated, bringing the total funding to over $20 million. The funding will primarily be used in R&D and sales ..
The United States Department of Justice this week announced that two individuals involved in providing bulletproof hosting to various malware families were sentenced to prison. Between 2009 and 2015, the two individuals – Aleksandr Skorodumov, 33, of Lithuania, and Pavel Stassi, 30, of Estonia – served as administrators for an organization that offered bulletproof hosting ..
Three former executives of now defunct cybersecurity company GigaTrust have been charged for defrauding investors and lenders in a $50 million fraud scheme. The charges, announced on Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department, target Robert Bernardi, the Virginia-based company’s founder and CEO, Nihat Cardak, the firm’s chief financial officer, and Sunil Chandra, former VP of ..
US authorities unveiled Wednesday long-delayed new rules aimed at clamping down on export to nations like Russia and China of hacking technology amid a sharp uptick in cyberattacks globally. The rules, which are set to go into force in 90 days, would prevent the sale of certain software or devices to a list of countries ..
Google has released a new version of its flagship Chrome web browser with patches for a total of 19 vulnerabilities, including 16 reported by external researchers. The most severe of these issues is CVE-2021-37981, a heap buffer overflow in Skia, for which a $20,000 bounty reward was paid, Google said in an advisory. Next in ..
