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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that it had seized servers and $1 million in Bitcoin from the prolific Russian ransomware gang behind the black suits and royal malware. According to a press release, a coalition of global law enforcement agencies, including the US, Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, and the UK, seized four servers and nine domains on July 24th. Additionally, authorities seized about $1 million in cryptocurrency. Blacksuit and Royal are two different ransomware believed to have been developed by the same Russian cybercrime gang targeting critical infrastructure in the US and beyond. “The Blacksuit actor has requested…

TechCrunch's 2025 will feature a candid conversation at Builders Stage in 2025, taking place in Moscone West, San Francisco from October 27-29. This unlocks what startup funding looks like beyond venture capital Echo Chamber. Funding routes that don't start in the valley Today's founders have more capital paths than ever before. But how do you navigate them? And do you know which ones actually support your growth? In this session, listen to Erik Allebest, CEO and co-founder of Chess.com. Gale Wilkinson, Vitalize's founder and managing partner. Kay Makishi, Vice President of Lupoff/Stevens Family Office. Each brings a different perspective on…

A new personal productivity app called Ocean launches to triage your overloaded inbox, turn emails into tasks and take actions, and share all the availability of meetings with other apps with one app. Today, Gmail is very dominant in the email market where there are very challengers. Realizing this, Ocean decided to work with Gmail rather than compete with it. As a third-party client, it is difficult to gain foothold in the market, but successful email apps have proven lucrative acquisitions. Yahoo bought the email app Xobni for $60 million, and Microsoft snapped compri for $200 million over the past…

Games Giant Electronic Arts launched an open beta over the weekend for its upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 6. Soon after the game's launch, countless players complained online about encountering a con man. In response, members of Electronic Arts' anti-cheat team passing through AC wrote in the official forum that they reported 104,000 “instances of potential con artists” in the first two days the game is online, and 330,000 “stop attempts to deceive or tamper with anti-cheat control.” Like many video games such as Valorant, Electronic Arts uses a kernel-level anti-cheat system called Javelin. This means that the system has the…

In 2024 Apple showed a fashionable demo of what they said to be a new, intelligent Siri that connects to different apps and retrieves all kinds of information. However, this new Siri has yet to see the light of day, as it appears that the company has not been able to prepare it. However, Bloomberg reports that Apple is currently testing a version of SIRI. The company plans to release a new version of the app Intents. Its framework allows developers to allow users to access parts of the app through various systems, such as searching and shortcuts. Bloomberg reported…

Security researchers said a flaw in the automaker's online dealer portal could have made it public with customer personal information and vehicle data, allowing hackers to remotely break into one of the customer's vehicles. Eaton Zveare, a security researcher at software distribution company Harness, told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered allowed him to create an administrator account that granted “free access” to Carmaker's centralized web portal, which had no name. This access allowed malicious hackers to view personal and financial data from car manufacturer customers, track vehicles, and register their customers with features that allow the owner or hacker…

Like others who have a mobile phone in the US and later, if you receive fraudulent text messages about email items with no unpaid tolls or withdrawals, you could have been targeted for prolific fraudulent operations. The fraud was not particularly complicated, but it was very effective. From mail delivery to local government programs, by sending spam text messages that look like authentic notifications for popular services, unsuspecting victims click on the link loading the phishing page, enter their credit card details, and the information is swiped to use for fraud. During the seven months of 2024, the scam had…

It's good to have a simple app that does one thing well without making a fuss. Microsoft Lens was that type of app. This is a mobile document scanner that transforms paper documents, business cards, receipts, and more into easy-to-read digital files. Microsoft is now aborted app, so instead they will lead users to the Copilot AI chat app. According to new support documents, the lens will be deprecated from iOS and Android devices from September 15, 2025, and will be removed from the Apple App Store and Google Play on November 15, 2025. Existing users will be able to…

TechCrunch's confusion is not just a technical conference, it's the LaunchPad. For 20 years, the startup came to TechCrunch's suspension, met with the first investors, won the biggest partnerships, and sparked the idea of taking it to the next level. In 2025, that Launchpad could become an exhibition table. As the tables are on sale at a rapid pace, it is the moment when we reach the front of more than 10,000 founders, VCSs and tech innovators in West Moscon, San Francisco on October 27-29. Waiting, competitors grab the spotlight and deal. Image credit: Slava Blazer Photography What to lose…

After the launch of the new Instagram Snapma-like opt-in “Instagram Map” feature on Wednesday, users can share their latest active locations with others and discover location-based content. Meta revealed that location sharing is turned off by default, but social media has incorrectly claimed it is automatically turned on with many posts on its social media that encourage users to turn off location sharing. “We're double checking everything, but so far people seem confused and can see themselves on the map when they open so others can see them too,” Moseli said in a post in the thread. “We're still checking…