Boost Security Raises $4 Million for SDLC Defense Platform
Software development life cycle (SDLC) defense provider Boost Security has announced raising $4 million in funding, and two acquisitions meant to expand its platform’s capabilities.…
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Worries About AI’s Risks to Humanity Loom Over the Trial Pitting Musk Against OpenAI’s Leaders
At the heart of the trial pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a moment when they found common cause on an ever…
Palo Alto Zero-Day Exploited in Campaign Bearing Hallmarks of Chinese State Hacking
Palo Alto Networks has shared some information on the exploitation of the recently disclosed zero-day vulnerability affecting some of its firewalls. The cybersecurity firm has…
Attackers Could Exploit AI Vision Models Using Imperceptible Image Changes
Cisco’s AI Threat Intelligence and Security Research team has published the second installment of a study probing how vision-language models (VLM), AI systems that read…
Claude AI Guided Hackers Toward OT Assets During Water Utility Intrusion
Cybersecurity firm Dragos has released a threat intelligence report detailing an intrusion into a municipal water and drainage utility in Monterrey, Mexico, in which an…
Romanian Man Extradited to US for Role in Hacking Scheme 17 Years Ago
A Romanian national was recently extradited to the United States for his role in a cybercrime scheme carried out 17 years ago, the Justice Department…
Iranian APT Intrusion Masquerades as Chaos Ransomware Attack
The Iran-linked APT actor MuddyWater has been observed performing an intrusion masquerading as a ransomware attack, Rapid7 reports. As part of the intrusion observed in…
Autonomous Offensive Security Firm XBOW Raises $35 Million
Autonomous offensive security firm XBOW on Wednesday announced raising $35 million in an extension of the Series C funding round announced earlier this year. The…
Herd Security Raises $3 Million for AI-Powered Training Platform
Herd Security today announced raising $3 million in a funding round led by Aspiron Ventures, with additional support from ForwardSlash VC, Forum Ventures, Rightside Capital,…
Government, Scientific Entities Hit via Daemon Tools Supply Chain Attack
Government, scientific, manufacturing, and retail organizations have been targeted with a sophisticated backdoor in an ongoing supply chain attack involving the Daemon Tools disk imaging…
Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in Android
Google announced on Monday the release of an Android update patching a critical vulnerability that can be exploited for remote code execution. The flaw, tracked…
Critical Bug Could Expose 300,000 Ollama Deployments to Information Theft
Roughly 300,000 Ollama deployments are prone to sensitive information theft through a remotely exploitable, unauthenticated critical vulnerability, Cyera warns. Ollama is an open source solution…