Shares of educational technology specialist Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) fell 14% on Friday, following the release of the company's fourth-quarter results. While Duolingo reported strong financial results for its fourth quarter, investors were spooked by management's strategic shift to prioritize user growth over monetization. The post-earnings drop worsened an already brutal start to the year for the ...
Shares of educational technology specialist Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) fell 14% on Friday, following the release of the company's fourth-quarter results. While Duolingo reported strong financial results for its fourth quarter, investors were spooked by management's strategic shift to prioritize user growth over monetization. The post-earnings drop worsened an already brutal start to the year for the stock, leaving it significantly underperforming the broader market. With the stock down sharply year to date, is this a buying opportunity? Or does a shifting growth profile warrant an even bigger discount? Continue reading
Google Disrupts China-Tied Cyber Campaign That Hacked 42 Countries Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said on Feb. 25 that Google and its cybersecurity partners disrupted a global espionage campaign that the group confirmed had hacked 42 countries and suspects infected at least 20 more. GTIG has tracked the group as UNC2814/Gallium since 2017 an...
Google Disrupts China-Tied Cyber Campaign That Hacked 42 Countries Authored by Catherine Yang via The Epoch Times, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said on Feb. 25 that Google and its cybersecurity partners disrupted a global espionage campaign that the group confirmed had hacked 42 countries and suspects infected at least 20 more. GTIG has tracked the group as UNC2814/Gallium since 2017 and suspects it to be Chinese. “This prolific, elusive actor has a long history of targeting international governments and global telecommunications organizations across Africa, Asia, and the Americas,” the report reads. The campaign is characterized by stealth tactics and the targeting of cloud-hosted products to disguise its traffic. The group stated that this campaign is distinct and separate from Salt Typhoon, a major Chinese regime-backed cyberespionage campaign. “This was a vast surveillance apparatus used to spy on people and organizations throughout the world,” GTIG Chief Analyst John Hultquist said. GTIG said its disruption efforts have terminated the group’s access to a backdoor, disabled its infrastructure, and revoked its accounts and access to relevant Google products. The campaign came on the heels of the discovery of a novel backdoor the group used that Google tracks as Gridtide, “a sophisticated C-based backdoor with the ability to execute arbitrary shell commands, upload files, and download files.” Charley Snyder, GTIG senior manager, said the backdoor was installed on a system that had access to phone numbers, dates and places of birth, voter IDs, and national ID numbers. The group’s recent activity has targeted telecommunication providers and government organizations, according to the report. “This prolific scope is likely the result of a decade of concentrated effort,” the report reads. Google recently warned that foreign adversaries are targeting the U.S. defense industrial base in cyberspace. In a Feb. 10 report, it said that groups in Russia, North Kore...