Apple warns exploit developers that iPhones have been targeted by government spyware
Earlier this year, a developer was shocked to see a message on his personal phone that read, “Apple has detected a targeted spyware attack on your iPhone.” “I was panicking,” Jay Gibson, who asked that his real name not be used for fear of retaliation, told TechCrunch. Mr. Gibson, who until recently was building surveillance […]
Disrupt Stage Revealed: Where the Future of Technology First Breaks | TechCrunch
Exclusively at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the Disrupt Stage features the tech industry’s biggest bets, broadcast live and unfiltered. This is where startup dreams turn into $100,000 in prize money at the Startup Battlefield 200, and where the industry’s leading players reveal what’s next. The industry’s biggest voices take center stage This year, we’ll be joined […]
Aura launches $499 cordless e-ink digital photo frame
Aura introduces its newest model, the $499 Ink Frame. It brings a 13-inch color e-paper display to the company’s LCD-based lineup. The technology is similar to that found in the Kindle Colorsoft e-reader, which uses a six-color ink system to create the illusion of millions of shades. More importantly, by using e-ink technology, you can […]
Veeam acquires data security company Securiti AI for $1.7 billion
Veeam, a data resiliency company, wants to give its customers greater control and security over their data in the AI era. The Kirkland, Wash.-based company announced Tuesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Securiti AI, a company that provides enterprises with a command center for all their data. The $1.725 billion deal […]
PolarEdge’s growing botnet campaign targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology Routers
October 21, 2025Ravi LakshmananMalware/vulnerabilities Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge. PolarEdge was first documented by Sekoia in February 2025 as a campaign targeting Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology routers with the as-yet-unspecified goal of corralling these routers into their networks. At its core, TLS-based ELF implants are designed […]
Securing AI to Profit from AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise in improving cyber defenses and making security personnel’s lives easier. This helps teams eliminate alert fatigue, identify patterns faster, and achieve levels of scale that human analysts alone cannot match. But realizing that potential depends on protecting the systems that make it possible. All organizations experimenting with AI in […]
Quantum computing’s ‘lie detector’ conclusively proves these machines are exploiting Einstein’s creepy behavior from a distance, rather than just faking it
Researchers have developed an experimental method to determine whether the functions performed by quantum computers are the result of quantum mechanics or just a clever twist on classical physics. In a groundbreaking study published on April 22, 2025 in the journal Physical Review This “quantum lie detector,” as the researchers described it, was created by […]
Spiro raises $100 million, largest ever investment in African e-mobility
The story of electric mobility in Africa has often been one of promise rather than progress. Infrastructure is lacking, the power grid is unreliable, and most markets still run on cheap imported bikes. But for the past two years, Dubai-based Spiro has been trying to rewrite that narrative. The company has just announced a $100 […]
Amazon identifies problem that destroyed much of the internet, says AWS is back to normal
Monday’s outage affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), causing a huge swath of the web to go down, including websites, banks and some government services. On Monday afternoon, the company provided an update on the cause of the problem and said it was working to restore service. Amazon announced at 6:01 p.m. ET […]
Google identifies three new Russian malware families created by COLDRIVER hackers
October 21, 2025Ravi LakshmananCyber espionage/threat intelligence The new malware, attributed to a Russia-linked hacker group known as COLDRIVER, has been in development multiple times since May 2025, suggesting an increase in the “tempo of operations” by the threat actors. The findings come from the Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), which states that in the same […]