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Slide Announces $70M Series B Round & EMEA Expansion

Slide, a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) platform designed exclusively for managed services providers (MSPs), announced Tuesday it has raised $70 million in Series B funding as the company accelerates product development and expands internationally. The round was led by venture capital firm General Catalyst, with participation from Base10, Outsiders Fund, futurepresent, Vine Ventures,…

iProov secures hiring, access, and recovery by verifying the human behind every login

iProov the iProov Workforce Solution Suite, designed to protect enterprises from deepfakes and other identity attacks while improving operational efficiency. It enables organizations to verify genuine human presence and stop attackers. The suite supports remote hiring and onboarding, shared device access, step-up and privileged access, and account recovery. Enterprises have invested heavily in zero trust,…

AI Is Moving Faster Than Security Controls

AI is entering organisations faster than the security controls designed to govern it. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming embedded across organisations. AI assistants are now writing code, summarising documents, analysing data, and supporting operational decisions. What began as experimentation is quickly becoming operational dependency. For security teams, the challenge is not simply adopting AI. The…

DeepKeep Launches AI Agent Security Scanner

DeepKeep on Tuesday introduced a new AI Agent Scanner designed to help enterprises identify and secure the growing attack surface created by AI agents embedded in business workflows. The Tel Aviv-based AI security vendor said its latest release provides structured attack surface scanning and discovery for agentic AI environments, where large language model (LLM)-based agents…

Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that’s designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via SSH, and deliver a Linux backdoor named Rekoobe. The Go module, github[.]com/xinfeisoft/crypto, impersonates the legitimate “golang.org/x/crypto” codebase, but injects malicious code that’s responsible for exfiltrating secrets entered via terminal password

IronCurtain: An open-source, safeguard layer for autonomous AI assistants

Veteran security engineer Niels Provos is working on a new technical approach designed to stop autonomous AI agents from taking actions you haven’t specifically authorized. His open-source software solution, called IronCurtain, aims to neutralize the risk of an LLM-powered agent “going rogue” – whether through prompt injection or the agent gradually deviating from the user’s…

Backblaze launches two tools to automate endpoint backup management

Backblaze announced two new tools for Backblaze Computer Backup designed to give IT teams greater control, consistency, and automation across endpoint deployments: the Advanced Installer and the Backblaze Command Line Interface (bzcli). Backblaze Computer Backup has long been known for its simplicity. Install it, and it runs quietly in the background protecting data. While this…

GitLab Expands MSP Program for AI-Driven DevSecOps

GitLab is expanding its managed services strategy with a new MSP partner program designed to help providers deliver agentic AI capabilities across the full software development lifecycle while addressing enterprise data sovereignty and compliance requirements. GitLab targets enterprise demand for agentic AI across the software lifecycle Enterprises are accelerating AI adoption but often encounter bottlenecks…

Netskope NewEdge AI Fast Path reduces latency for enterprise AI workloads

Netskope has announced NewEdge AI Fast Path, a set of capabilities designed to optimize network paths to critical AI destinations, including applications hosted in public, private, or neo-cloud environments. The offering reduces latency and costs, improves performance and resilience, and delivers a secure experience for teams using AI applications or enterprises adopting agentic AI. Eliminating…

SentinelOne addresses identity risk across endpoints, browsers, and AI workflows

SentinelOne has unveiled its Singularity Identity portfolio designed to secure the growing population of non-human identities, including AI agents, service accounts, APIs, and workloads. Identity attacks have long been a go-to tactic for nation-state actors and cybercriminals. Most defenses focus on stopping them at authentication and permissions. Attackers continue adapting their tactics to bypass those…

Veza expands platform with AI Access Agents for enterprise identity governance

Veza expanded its platform with Veza Access Agents, a set of purpose-built AI agents designed to automate complex identity and access governance tasks for enterprises. Veza also announced advancements to its AI Agent Security product, providing organizations with deeper visibility into agent risks and greater control over third-party AI agents, large language models (LLMs), AI…

CloudCasa expands Red Hat OpenShift data protection across edge and hybrid cloud

CloudCasa has announced enhancements to its backup and recovery platform designed to support Red Hat OpenShift environments across core, edge, and hybrid cloud deployments. The latest CloudCasa updates introduce SMB protocol support as a backup storage target, enabling organizations to leverage existing SMB-based storage, including deployments using an SMB operator on Red Hat OpenShift clusters,…

Malicious NuGet Packages Stole ASP.NET Data; npm Package Dropped Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four malicious NuGet packages that are designed to target ASP.NET web application developers to steal sensitive data. The campaign, discovered by Socket, exfiltrates ASP.NET Identity data, including user accounts, role assignments, and permission mappings, as well as manipulates authorization rules to create persistent backdoors in victim applications.

Simbian AI Pentest Agent delivers continuous, context-aware penetration testing

Simbian announced the launch of the Simbian AI Pentest Agent, a new solution designed to provide enterprises with ongoing, on-demand penetration testing. Simbian’s AI Pentest Agent is the first automated penetration testing solution to incorporate business context, ensuring that findings are focused on each customer’s specific security risks and priorities. Developed in partnership the leading…

Compliance Scorecard v10 delivers context-driven AI for explainable compliance decisions

Compliance Scorecard announced the release of v10, introducing governed, audit-ready AI designed to support defensible compliance decision-making for managed service providers (MSPs). Compliance Scorecard v10 applies AI only within a structured system of validated context and controls. The platform is built on a simple premise: AI can only be trusted in compliance if the required…

Cloud Range Rolls Out Validation Range for Secure AI Testing

Cloud Range on Tuesday launched its AI Validation Range, a cyber range platform designed to help organizations securely test, train, and validate AI models and agentic AI before deployment in production environments. Balancing AI security and human judgment According to Cloud Range, its new platform is designed to address the rapid adoption of unmanaged AI…

Lasso’s Intent Deputy secures AI agents through real-time behavioral intent analysis

Lasso Security launched Intent Deputy, a behavioral intent framework designed to secure AI agents at runtime. It delivers real-time insight into AI behavior by interpreting intent, decision flow, and operational context. “Intent Security represents the breakthrough security paradigm this rapidly evolving market demands, and Intent Deputy is our first-of-its-kind solution delivering it. It equips security…

HaystackID delivers audit-ready AI governance for high-risk, regulated environments

HaystackID has released HaystackID AI Governance Services, a new portfolio designed to help organizations move from AI principles and policies to an execution-ready governance operating model. The launch comes as organizations face converging regulatory timelines. EU AI Act obligations have been in effect since February 2025, with additional high-risk system requirements phasing in through August…

Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Business Data, Emails, and Browsing History

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that’s designed to steal data associated with Meta Business Suite and Facebook Business Manager. The extension, named CL Suite by @CLMasters (ID: jkphinfhmfkckkcnifhjiplhfoiefffl), is marketed as a way to scrape Meta Business Suite data, remove verification pop-ups, and generate two-factor authentication (2FA) codes.

Brutus: Open-source credential testing tool for offensive security

Brutus is an open-source, multi-protocol credential testing tool written in pure Go. Designed to replace legacy tools that have long frustrated penetration testers with dependency headaches and integration gaps, Brutus ships as a single binary with zero external dependencies and native support for the JSON-based reconnaissance pipelines that define offensive security. Solving a real workflow…

BlueCat Horizon unifies DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and security into a cloud-first intelligent NetOps platform

BlueCat Networks has unveiled BlueCat Horizon, a SaaS-based platform designed to modernize how enterprises and mid-market organizations operate, secure, and evolve their networks through AI-assisted insights and coordinated action across the network. BlueCat Horizon introduces a common set of platform and infrastructure services that support multiple network applications and enable cross-domain use cases that were…

Trellix SecondSight identifies subtle indicators of an active breach

Trellix announced Trellix SecondSight, a threat hunting service designed to proactively identify low-noise advanced threats often undetected, reducing organizational risk for Trellix customers. “Threat actors’ use of AI has significantly increased alert fatigue for security analysts,” said John Fokker, VP Threat Intelligence Strategy, Trellix. “While automated systems flag high-level alerts, they often miss subtle, low-noise…

BloodHound Scentry helps organizations reduce identity risk and close attack paths

SpecterOps has announced BloodHound Scentry, a new service designed to help customers accelerate their APM practice and reduce identity risk. BloodHound Scentry combines the power of BloodHound Enterprise with SpecterOps tradecraft experts and practitioners to provide customers with tailored guidance for attack path remediation, advanced analysis for emerging threats, and privilege zone design to protect…

ScienceLogic Launching AI Advisor to Guide IT Operations

ScienceLogic has announced the launch of Skylar Advisor, an AI-native advisor designed to help IT teams turn overwhelming data into valuable outcomes and proactively guide IT operations. ScienceLogic promises IT teams automated and verifiable guidance Skylar Advisor combines real-time observability data with customer-owned knowledge to reason across IT environments and deliver transparent, explainable, and verifiable…

OpenAI Frontier organizes AI agents under one system

OpenAI introduced Frontier, a platform designed to organize AI agents that perform business tasks within internal systems and workflows. The platform connects data from multiple internal systems including customer relationship management tools, ticketing platforms, and data warehouses. This integration creates a shared knowledge layer that allows AI agents to understand business processes and decision points…

Microsoft develops a new scanner to detect hidden backdoors in LLMs

Microsoft has developed a scanner designed to detect backdoors in open-weight AI models, addressing a critical blind spot for enterprises increasingly dependent on third-party LLMs. In a blog post, the company said its research focused on identifying hidden triggers and malicious behaviors embedded during the training or fine-tuning of language models, which can remain dormant…

AiStrike introduces AI-powered MDR to reduce costs and alert fatigue

AiStrike announced the launch of AiStrike MDR, an AI-powered managed detection and response (MDR) service designed to replace human-intensive MDR with an AI-led, expert-guided operating model built for scale, speed, and measurable outcomes. Enterprises and government organizations use AiStrike to unify threat intelligence, detection engineering, investigation, and response in a single AI-native platform, improving detection…

AiStrike introduces AI-powered MDR to reduce costs and alert fatigue

AiStrike announced the launch of AiStrike MDR, an AI-powered managed detection and response (MDR) service designed to replace human-intensive MDR with an AI-led, expert-guided operating model built for scale, speed, and measurable outcomes. Enterprises and government organizations use AiStrike to unify threat intelligence, detection engineering, investigation, and response in a single AI-native platform, improving detection…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…

Guarding your family against the latest online threats

Parents across America face a growing wave of sophisticated online fraud designed to exploit their deepest fears and protective instincts. Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, representing a 25% increase over the prior year, according to new Federal Trade Commission data. Parents represent a particularly vulnerable target because scammers understand…