London FinTech Starling Bank has put Meta on notice and said it was boycotting advertising on Facebook and Instagram due to the number of scammers infiltrating its social media platforms, Starling CEO Anne Boden said in her annual letter. The unicorn challenger bank that counts...
The Log4Shell vulnerability has affected workforce management and human resources (HR) cloud provider Kronos, the company warned users in a blog post last updated Monday (Dec. 13). Log4Shell is a security flaw found in things like online games, enterprise software, cloud data centers and more....
Global software company ACI Worldwide, a provider of real-time digital payment software, and Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS), a developer of advanced fuel dispensing, payment and connectivity solutions for worldwide fueling operations, introduced a joint effort aimed at bolstering protection of customers’ credit and debit cards at fueling...
Kasada has announced a $23 million series C funding round and says it’s seeing more demand for its bot protection tech, which can stop automated attacks, the company announced Monday (Dec. 6). Kasada purports to be able to do away with the attacks without requiring...
A Russian man, Aleksandr Grichishkin, has been sentenced for giving shelter to cybercriminals for years, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday (Dec. 1). He reportedly provided “bulletproof hosting” services for cybercriminals to send out malware and target financial institutions around the U.S., and has been...
Attack surface management (ASM) startup CyCognito raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by The Westly Group, according to a press release on Wednesday (Dec. 1). New investors Thomvest Ventures and The Heritage Group also participated in the funding round, along with...
In the endless cycle of cybercrime whack-a-mole, fraudsters just scored a win with a sophisticated campaign using real-seeming apps as “droppers” carrying trojan code designed to steal banking passwords and data from devices, leading to an estimated 300,000 infections. A recent analysis by cybersecurity firm...
Digital banking and cyber security solutions platform VersaBank is expanding the closed ecosystem testing for Digital Deposit Receipts (DDRs) and will include the U.S. dollar, the Algorand and Ethereum blockchains and more. David Taylor, VersaBank President and CEO, said in a press release that the...
Amid warnings from child safety advocates that Meta’s plan to encrypt Facebook and Instagram could keep abusers from detection, Meta on Sunday (Nov. 21) announced it’s pushing off the plan until 2023, according to a Tech Times report. Meta has been using end-to-end encryption in...
