TrickBot Operators Partner with Shathak Attackers for Conti Ransomware

The operators of TrickBot trojan are collaborating with the Shathak threat group to distribute their wares, ultimately leading to the deployment of Conti ransomware on infected machines. “The implementation of TrickBot has evolved over the years, with recent versions of TrickBot implementing malware-loading capabilities,” Cybereason security analysts Aleksandar Milenkoski and Eli Salem said in a…

Home, star, trucker – TechCrunch

Once I was recovered from the initial surrealism of Amazon launching its own home robot, I immediately thought about iRobot. The company cornered the home robotics market a decade ago, and while there are now countless robot vacuums, they’re all more or less riffs on the Roomba. The issue with having a big hit is…

Here’s how Rippling, fresh off its Series C round, aims to center companies around ’employee identity’ – TechCrunch

Late last month, Rippling, the now five-year-old company founded by serial entrepreneur Parker Conrad, raised $250 million in Series C funding in a round that pushed its valuation to a whopping $6.5 billion. Now, Conrad is taking the wraps off what had investors so excited in the outfit, which already helps companies manage their employees’…