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IBM’s $150 Billion US Investment to Boost Quantum Innovation and National Security

IBM invests 150B in America

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by SecurityWeek News / 1h

IBM will invest more than $30 billion in research and development to advance and continue its American manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Palo Alto Networks to Acquire AI Security Firm Protect AI

Palo Alto Networks acquires Protect AI

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by Eduard Kovacs / 11h

Palo Alto Networks is acquiring AI security company Protect AI in a deal previously estimated at $650-700 million. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

NetFoundry Raises $12 Million for Network Security Solutions

NetFoundry raises 12 million dollars

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by Ionut Arghire / 11h

Zero-trust network security solutions provider NetFoundry has raised $12 million in funding from SYN Ventures. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

JPMorgan Chase CISO Fires Warning Shot Ahead of RSA Conference

by Ryan Naraine / 11h

This tension between hard-edged risk realism and breathless AI evangelism sets an unmistakable tone for a bellwether conference where 40,000-plus gather to do business. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Veza Banks $108 Million Series D at $808 Million Valuation

Veza partners with GuidePoint Security

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by SecurityWeek News / 12h

San Francisco identity security play Veza closes a Series D fund round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA). The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Craft CMS Zero-Day Exploited to Compromise Hundreds of Websites

3 TTPs

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by Ionut Arghire / 13h

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CVE-2025-32432

Threat actors have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Craft CMS to execute PHP code on hundreds of websites. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

4 Million Affected by VeriSource Data Breach

Exfiltration (Enterprise TA0010)

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by Ionut Arghire / 15h

VeriSource Services says the personal information of 4 million people was compromised in a February 2024 cyberattack. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Critical Vulnerabilities Found in Planet Technology Industrial Networking Products

5 TTPs

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by Eduard Kovacs / 16h

Planet Technology industrial switches and network management products are affected by several critical vulnerabilities. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

RSA Conference 2025 – Pre-Event Announcements Summary (Part 3)

by SecurityWeek News / 18h

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

Yesterday

African Telecom Giant MTN Group Discloses Data Breach

MTN reports cybersecurity incident customer data

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by Ionut Arghire / 18h

MTN Group says the personal information of certain customers was compromised in a cybersecurity incident. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Oregon Agency Won’t Say If Hackers Stole Data in Cyberattack

3 TTPs

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by Associated Press / 19h

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Oregon DEQ recovers from cyberattack

Oregon’s environmental agency won’t say if a group of hackers stole data in a cyberattack that was first announced earlier this month. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Apr 26, 2025

Cynomi Raises $37 Million Series B to Expand Its vCISO Platform

Cynomi raises 37M$ Series B

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by SecurityWeek News / 2d

Cynomi announced a new $37 million Series B funding to grow its AI-powered vCISO platform for MSPs and MSSPs. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Apr 25, 2025

Browser Security Firm SquareX Raises $20 Million

SquareX raises 20M for browser security

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by SecurityWeek News / 3d

SquareX offers what it has dubbed a “Browser Detection and Response (BDR)” solution. The post appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Former Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables Joins Ballistic Ventures

Phil Venables joins Ballistic Ventures

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by SecurityWeek News / 3d

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 / 3d

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

Mandiant reports evolving cyber threats

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by Kevin Townsend / 3d

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 / 3d

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 / 3d

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 / 3d

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 / 3d

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 / 3d

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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 / 3d

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 .

Apr 24, 2025

SAP Zero-Day Possibly Exploited by Initial Access Broker

10 TTPs

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by Ionut Arghire / 3d

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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 / 3d

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 / 4d

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 / 4d

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 DBIR highlights patch delays

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by Ryan Naraine / 4d

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 / 4d

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 / 4d

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 / 4d

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 / 4d

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 / 4d

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 / 4d

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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 / 4d

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 / 5d

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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