UK-based Virtuoso raises $13.3M Series A led by Paladin Capital to automate software testing – TechCrunch

UK-based software testing startup Virtuoso has raised a $13.3 million Series A round led by Paladin Capital. The round was joined by Mubadala Capital as well as existing UK investors Crane Venture Partners, Forward Partners, and Downing Ventures.  Virtuoso says its SaaS software testing platform, which launched in 2019, uses machine learning and Robotic Process…

Old habits, new tricks – IoT turns a corner (plus five IoT lessons from those in the know)

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Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants accept payments without hardware – TechCrunch

Micro and small businesses in emerging markets still struggle to access online payments for several reasons. One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive.  U.K.-based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform…

North Korean Hackers Target Cybersecurity Researchers with Trojanized IDA Pro

Lazarus, the North Korea-affiliated state-sponsored group, is attempting to once again target security researchers with backdoors and remote access trojans using a trojanized pirated version of the popular IDA Pro reverse engineering software. The findings were reported by ESET security researcher Anton Cherepanov last week in a series of tweets. IDA Pro is an Interactive…