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PortalOne Raised $15 Million From Founders Fund, Atari, and Kevin Lin’s Twitch
PortalOne Earlier this month, at the tvlunden TechCrunch, the founders of the port alone, a company that creates online games, raised 15 million dollars to launch their first game, called Twitch. The game will be available on a mobile device and will also have a web version. It will have a variety of different games, including a slingshot game that allows users to throw objects, shoot enemies,
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and hit other players. The company is also working on a game that allows players to play the role of an astronaut. It is hoped that the game will be released soon.
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Founders Fund, Atari, and Kevin Lin’s Twitch have all invested in PortalOne. This company is aiming to deliver the best of both worlds, a gaming experience with live television content. The company has been in closed beta for a while, but it is expected to move out soon. PortalOne, which will soon be open to the public, has received a $15 million seed from Founders Fund. Other notable investors include Atari, Coatue Management, Rogue Capital Partners, TQ Ventures, and Signia Venture Partners.
The aforementioned $15 million seed will help fund the development of a game that promises to take gaming to the next level, by adding a live media component. The company also aims to build a social community around its game engine.
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During the recent years, portalone gaming devices have been declining in popularity. But a group of former Atari employees has decided to start a fund to support portalone gaming devices. Their goal is to raise $1 million by the end of the year. They believe there is a demand for port-alone devices in the market. They have already raised over $100,000 and hope to raise more funds. They have already invested in companies such as Twitch and Atari. The former employees believe there is enough interest in the project to raise money.
Among the investors are Xen Lategan, the former executive advisor at several companies, and Mike Morhaime, the founder of Dreamhaven. Others include Talis Capital, TQ Ventures, and Signia Venture Partners. The company’s primary product encrypts data before it leaves a computer. It also offers the ability to block cookies and trackers. They are in closed beta right now, but they hope to enter the market soon.
Portalone has been gaining attention for its unique data protection methods. It has a browser extension that blocks cookies, trackers, and government surveillance. The company has been working with companies such as Twitch, which is a live streaming video platform. They have also invested in eSports.
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Having raised over $15 million, PortalOne, a hybrid gaming and TV show app, is getting ready to launch into the market. The startup company has secured investments from a number of top players in the gaming industry, including Atari, Twitch, and Coatue Management. It is also backed by investors such as Sunny Dhillon, the founder of Signia Venture Partners and the former CTO of Hulu, and Talis Dhillon, the founder of TQ Ventures.
PortalOne is also working with a number of gaming companies, including Riot Games, Blizzard, and Dreamhaven. The company’s main product is an online security tool that encrypts data before it leaves the computer, protecting it from hackers and government surveillance. The company also aims to create a social community around its game engine.
The company’s other investors include Atari, Founders Fund, Seedcamp, Rogue Capital Partners, and Coatue Management. It also has investment from Twitch, the popular live-streaming video platform. According to the company’s COO, eSports is the fastest-growing category in the gaming industry.
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Earlier this year, a group of former Atari employees launched a fund to support the development of the Port alone, a gaming device. They believe there is enough interest in the project to raise the required funding. Their goal is to raise $1 million by the end of the year.
The company is led by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, who is also the CEO of Twitch, the live-streaming video platform. Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin is also part of the investment. Other investors include Atari, Talis Capital, SNO Ventures, and Seedcamp.
Atari hopes to capitalize on the portability of its Portalone gaming device, which is also able to stream to Twitch-enabled devices. Portability has always been a key factor in the gaming industry. The Portalone is compact and light, which helps make it easy to carry around. It also offers a browser extension that helps users block trackers and cookies. The product is also designed to encrypt data before it leaves a computer, protecting it from hackers and government surveillance.
PortalOne, the creator of what the company is calling ‘the world’s first hybrid games platform’, has secured $15 million in seed funding from some very heavy hitters in the worlds of tech, games, and media, including Twitch, Blizzard, Riot & Atari.
The company is bringing together the worlds of TV production and game development, and tying it all together with tech. PortalOne has developed a blend of streaming video and interactive games, delivered to virtual reality headsets or mobile phones. Users can participate in live streamed ‘game shows’, within which they can compete in interactive games.
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After running a closed beta of its service for the last several months, the company is now preparing to launch in the US later this year, with the retro-inspired PortalOne Arcade, which will place the show’s guests inside ‘super-sized’ versions of classic arcade games – they’ve just signed an exclusive seven year deal with Atari – as well as original new titles.
PortalOne is also planning to open its platform up to third party creators, enabling other companies to publish their own hybrid games.
While the blend of live-streamed video and online gaming may not seem like a natural combination, some of the world’s biggest tech, media and games investors are giving PortalOne their support.
The $15m seed funding round included: Founders Fund (Peter Thiel), TQ Ventures (Scooter Braun, Schuster Tanger and Andrew Marks) and Signia Venture Partners whose LPs include Warner Bros., Disney and Tencent.
The round also saw participation from a number of high profile angel investors, including Kevin Lin (co-founder of Twitch), Mike Morhaime (co-founder of Blizzard and Dreamhaven), Amy Morhaime (co-founder of Dreamhaven), Marc Merrill (co-founder of Riot Games), Xen Lategan (former CTO and executive advisor at various companies such as Hulu), and Eugene Wei (former Head of Video at Oculus and Head of Product at Hulu). PortalOne’s strategic partners Atari and ARRI also invested.
PortalOne was co-founded in Norway, by brothers Stig Olav Kasin and Bård Anders Kasin. Bård previously worked as a Technical Director at Warner Bros. where he worked on revolutionary movie productions like the Matrix Trilogy. He also previously co-founded The Future Group, which provides mixed reality solutions for media production. Stig Olav previously worked as an award-winning developer and executive producer of interactive entertainment and mobile games. His background as television executive includes leading roles for shows like The Voice and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Bård Anders Kasin, CEO and Co-founder of PortalOne, said: “We are incredibly fortunate to have been joined by a number of true icons and visionaries who immediately grasped the unique potential of PortalOne. To get such strong backing from so many industry innovators at such an early stage of this journey is something you can only dream of. All of our investors bring tremendous value to the table and we are grateful for all of their support.”
Scooter Braun, Co-founder of TQ Ventures, said: “As PortalOne continues to grow, it is seamlessly integrating the gaming and entertainment worlds to create a single interactive experience and endless opportunities for content creation. Creators and performers alike want new and innovative ways to bring their craft to life, and PortalOne is meeting that demand in a way that no other business has done. I’m excited to work with the entire team to realize their trailblazing vision. I have never seen anything like this before.”
Kirill Tasilov, Principal at Talis Capital, said: “Massive opportunities continue to emerge in the interactive entertainment space as distribution and business models evolve. PortalOne is redefining mobile by unlocking new hybrid experiences at the intersection of games and video, and we are thrilled to be a part of their journey.”
Kevin Lin, Co-founder of Twitch, said: “The next big social platform will likely be a convergence of media with gaming at its core – a truly new immersive interactive experience – and PortalOne is a major contender for becoming such a platform.”
Sunny Dhillon, Partner at Signia Venture Partners, said: “When we see virtual concerts inside of TikTok, Roblox, and Fortnite, it’s great but PortalOne offers an evolution of interactive metaverse entertainment – true real-time, one-to-many interaction between gamers around the world, all in a mobile-native hybrid game format. We’re thrilled to partner with Bård Anders and Stig Olav on this journey.”
Delian Asparouhov, Principal at Founders Fund, said: “We back companies that we believe have strong potential to become global category leaders. PortalOne creates a new category and simultaneously the platform that is clearly set to dominate that new category. The market is ripe, the opportunity is clear, and the potential is unlimited. PortalOne is poised to create a before and after in the industry.”
As of right now, Microsoft has admitted to signing a malicious driver that is disseminated in gaming contexts.
This “Netfilter”-named driver is actually a rootkit that has been seen interacting with Chinese C2 IP addresses.
Last week, the whole infosec. community joined G Data malware specialist Karsten Hahn in tracking down and analysing the malicious drivers that bore the Microsoft logo.
This incident exposed vulnerabilities to software supply-chain security once more, but this time it was caused by a flaw in the code-signing procedure used by Microsoft.
Rootkit “Netfilter” driver is Microsoft-signed.
A Microsoft signed driver dubbed “Netfilter” was detected last week by G Data’s cybersecurity alert systems as what at first glance appeared to be a false positive, but wasn’t.
The driver in question was observed interacting with C&C IPs based in China, which had no valid functionality and raised red flags.
This is when Karsten Hahn, a malware analyst at G Data, disclosed this publicly and contacted Microsoft at the same time:
Since Windows Vista, all code that operates in kernel mode must be tested and certified before being made available to the public in order to maintain the stability of the operating system.
According to Hahn, “Drivers without a Microsoft certificate cannot be deployed by default.”
At that time, BleepingComputer started tracking C2 URL behaviour and approached Microsoft for a comment.
A list of further routes (URLs), denoted by the pipe (“|”) symbol, are returned by the first C2 URL:
Each of these, in Hahn’s opinion, has a function:
The URL that ends in “/p” refers to proxy settings, “/s” offers encoded redirection IPs, “/h?” is for getting CPU-ID, “/c” offered a root certificate, and “/v?” refers to the malware’s self-updating capabilities.
For instance, as observed by BleepingComputer, the malicious Netfilter driver in question (residing at “/d3”) was accessible via the “/v?” path at the following URL:
After thoroughly examining the driver, the G Data researcher came to the conclusion that it was malware.
In a thorough blog post, the researcher examined the driver, its ability to self-update, and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs).
According to Hahn, the sample features a self-update routine that transmits its own MD5 hash to the server via the URL hxxp:/110.42.4.180:2081/v?v=6&m=.
An illustration of a request would be as follows:
hxxp:/110.42.4.180:2081/v?v=6&m=921fa8a5442e9bf3fe727e770cded4ab
“The server then replies with either ‘OK’ if the sample is current or the URL for the most recent sample, such as hxxp:/110.42.4.180:2081/d6. As a result, the malware replaces its own file “further information from the researcher
Other malware specialists like Johann Aydinbas, Takahiro Haruyama, and Florian Roth worked with Hahn during his analysis.
Roth has offered YARA rules for recognising them in your network environments after being able to compile the list of samples in a spreadsheet.
Microsoft is looking at a bad actor who spreads harmful drivers inside of gaming environments.
“In order to be certified by the Windows Hardware Compatibility Program, the actor supplied drivers. A third party created the drivers.”
Microsoft stated yesterday, “We have stopped the account and checked their uploads for additional indicators of malware.”
Microsoft claims that the threat actor primarily targeted the gaming industry in China with these malicious drivers and that there is currently no evidence that enterprise environments have been impacted.
Microsoft is waiting before blaming nation-state actors for this incident.
Sophisticated threat actors may take advantage of falsely signed binaries to help launch extensive software supply-chain attacks.
A well-known event in which code-signing certificates were taken from Realtek and JMicron to assist the comprehensive Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear programme.
However, this specific instance has shown flaws in a reliable code-signing procedure, which threat actors have exploited to obtain Microsoft-signed code without jeopardising any certifications.
In an attack just before the holidays, the accounts of over three million customers of the American appointment scheduling service FlexBooker were taken, and they are now being exchanged on hacker forums.
The same hackers are also selling databases they claim to be from two other organisations: the Australian case management system rediCASE and the racing media outlet Racing.com.
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A few days before Christmas, there were supposedly three breaches, and the intruder posted the information on a hacking forum.
A popular programme for booking appointments and syncing employee calendars, FlexBooker, appears to be the source of the most recent data dump.
Owners of any company that needs to plan appointments, such as accountants, barbers, doctors, mechanics, lawyers, dentists, gyms, salons, therapists, trainers, spas, and the list goes on, are among FlexBooker’s clients.
The group claiming responsibility for the attack appears to go by the name of Uawrongteam, and they published links to files and archives containing personal information, including pictures, driver’s licences, and other IDs.
The database, according to Uawrongteam, has a table with 10 million lines of client data, including everything from payment forms and charges to pictures taken for driver’s licences.
Names, emails, phone numbers, password salt, and hashed passwords are among the database’s “juicy columns,” according to the actor.
Customers of FlexBooker have received a data breach notification that confirms the attack and that data on the service’s Amazon cloud storage system was “accessed and downloaded” by the intruders.
The letter states that “our account on Amazon’s AWS servers was compromised on December 23, 2021, starting at 4:05 PM EST,” adding that the attackers did not obtain “any credit card or other payment card information.”
FlexBooker advised consumers to be on the lookout for strange or fraudulent activities, and to monitor account statements and credit reports.
For further information, the developer also directed users to a report on a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It was then determined that some customers’ personal information had been obtained by the hackers.
The FlexBooker assault exposed email addresses, names, partial credit card information, passwords, and phone numbers for more than 3.7 million users, according to the data breach reporting service Have I Been Pwned.
Prior to FlexBooker, the threat actor known as Uawrongteam distributed links to material that was purportedly taken from Racing.com, a digital television station that broadcasts horse racing and offers news, stats, and event calendars associated with the sport.
The data from the Redbourne Gang’s rediCASE Case Management Software, which is utilised by numerous enterprises in addition to health and community agencies, looks to be another target of the same group.
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Rapyd, a “fintech-as-a-service” provider, to acquire Iceland-based Valitor, which establishes in-store and on the internet payments technologies, for $100M (Omar Faridi/Crowdfund Expert).
Rapyd, a “fintech-as-a-service” provider, to acquire Iceland-based Valitor, which develops in-store and online payments technologies, for $100M (Omar Faridi/Crowdfund Insider)
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