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Former Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables Joins Ballistic Ventures

Phil Venables joins Ballistic Ventures

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by SecurityWeek News / 2h

Venables has served as CISO and security executive across several large organizations, including Google Cloud, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Lattica Emerges From Stealth With FHE Platform for AI

Lattica secures funding for FHE

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by Eduard Kovacs / 2h

Lattica has raised $3.25 million in pre-seed funding for a platform that uses FHE to enable AI models to process encrypted data. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

M-Trends 2025: State-Sponsored IT Workers Emerge as Global Threat

by Kevin Townsend / 2h

Mandiant’s latest threat report shows how attackers adapt faster than defenses, shifting strategies toward credential theft and insider threats. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Inside the Verizon 2025 DBIR: Five Trends That Signal a Shift in the Cyber Threat Economy

by Danelle Au / 3h

With over 12,000 breaches analyzed, this year’s DBIR reveals a landscape shaped by not just individual threats, but by entire economies of compromise. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Scamnetic Raises $13 Million to Prevent Scams in Real Time

Scamnetic raises 13M for AI defense

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by Ionut Arghire / 3h

AI-powered threat protection startup Scamnetic has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Roo Capital. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Manifest Raises $15 Million for SBOM Management Platform

by Ionut Arghire / 4h

Software and AI supply chain transparency firm Manifest has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Ensemble VC. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

In Other News: Prison for Disney Hacker, MITRE ATT&CK v17, Massive DDoS Botnet

by SecurityWeek News / 4h

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: former Disney employee sent to prison for hacking, MITRE releases ATT&CK v17, DDoS botnet powered by 1.3 million devices. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

South Korean Companies Targeted by Lazarus via Watering Hole Attacks, Zero-Days

9 TTPs

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by Ionut Arghire / 4h

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Lazarus targets South Korean supply chains

Multiple South Korean organizations across industries have been targeted in a recent Lazarus campaign dubbed Operation SyncHole. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

RSA Conference 2025 – Pre-Event Announcements Summary (Part 2)

by SecurityWeek News / 5h

Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services next week at the 2025 edition of the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Yesterday

SAP Zero-Day Possibly Exploited by Initial Access Broker

10 TTPs

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by Ionut Arghire / 6h

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CVE-2025-31324

A zero-day vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver potentially affects more than 10,000 internet-facing applications. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

All Major Gen-AI Models Vulnerable to ‘Policy Puppetry’ Prompt Injection Attack

by Ionut Arghire / 7h

A new attack technique named Policy Puppetry can break the protections of major gen-AI models to produce harmful outputs. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

RSA Conference 2025 – Pre-Event Announcements Summary (Part 1)

by SecurityWeek News / 23h

Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services at the 2025 edition of the RSA Conference in San Francisco. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Jericho Security Gets $15 Million for AI-Powered Awareness Training

by Ionut Arghire / 1d

Jericho Security has raised $15 million in Series A funding for its AI-powered employee cybersecurity training platform. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Verizon DBIR Flags Major Patch Delays on VPNs, Edge Appliances

Verizon reports surge in data breaches

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by Ryan Naraine / 1d

The latest Verizon DBIR landed this week with a startling statistic about the security posture of VPNs and network edge devices. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Push Security Raises $30 Million in Series B Funding

by Ionut Arghire / 1d

Push Security has raised $30 million in Series B funding to scale its browser-based identity security platform. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

SecLytics Rebrands as Augur Security, Raises $7M in Seed Funding

by Ionut Arghire / 1d

AI-powered threat prevention company Augur (rebranded from SecLytics) has raised $7 million in seed funding. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

AI-Powered Polymorphic Phishing Is Changing the Threat Landscape

9 TTPs

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by Stu Sjouwerman / 1d

Combined with AI, polymorphic phishing emails have become highly sophisticated, creating more personalized and evasive messages that result in higher attack success rates. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

FBI: Cybercrime Losses Surpassed $16.6 Billion in 2024

FBI reports $16 billion cybercrime losses

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by Ionut Arghire / 1d

The FBI received roughly 860,000 complaints of malicious activity in 2024, with reported losses exceeding $16.6 billion. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Apr 23, 2025

Blue Shield of California Data Breach Impacts 4.7 Million People

Blue Shield shares health data breach

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by Ionut Arghire / 1d

Blue Shield of California says a website misconfiguration exposed the health information of its members to Google. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Cisco Confirms Some Products Impacted by Critical Erlang/OTP Flaw

4 TTPs

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by Eduard Kovacs / 1d

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CVE-2025-32433

Cisco is investigating the impact of the Erlang/OTP remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2025-32433 on its products. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

5.5 Million Patients Affected by Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health

2 TTPs

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24by Eduard Kovacs / 1d

Yale New Haven Health System recently discovered that the personal information of millions of patients was stolen from its systems. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

AuthMind Raises $19.3 Million in Seed Funding

AuthMind secures 19.3M seed funding

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by Ionut Arghire / 1d

Identity protection startup AuthMind has announced raising $19.3 million in a seed funding round led by Cheyenne Ventures. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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