Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections

In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by sapping power from a computer’s processor. Although the malware was used to […]

I’m sick of Chrome eating all my RAM – it’s time for me to ditch it for FireFox… or even Edge

That’s it. I’ve had enough of Chrome. I, like the vast majority of internet users, have been using Google’s web browser for years now. Back when it launched almost exactly 11 years ago, Chrome promised a different, better way of browsing the web. It convinced […]

Uccisa a coltellate una donna di 59 anni. Fermato il marito che ha tentato di investire i poliziotti

Accoltellata alla schiena e ritrovata nella cucina del suo appartamento, a Milano, in una pozza di sangue. E’ morta così, questa notte, Adriana Signorelli, aveva 59 anni. A lanciare l’allarme intorno all’1,30 è stata la figlia che non riusciva a contattarla al telefono. Poco dopo […]

Fitbit, Andela, AfricaTech, startups and Brexit, plus content moderation

Programming note: Happy Labor Day! To our U.S.-based readers, happy Labor Day weekend. Extra Crunch will be off on Monday and will resume publishing next Tuesday. Reminder: EC ticket discounts for Enterprise Sessions and Disrupt SF Next week, we will be hosting our Enterprise Sessions […]