Artificial intelligence-native security company Straiker launched today with an announcement that it has raised $21 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners LP and Bain Capital Ventures. The company introduced solutions designed to safeguard the full range of enterprise AI applications, from AI-native apps to agents. Straiker aims to help organizations confidently deploy AI by addressing critical security ...

Financial technology firm Mercury Financial LLC, best known as a bank of choice for tech startups, announced today that it has raised $300 million in new funding on a $3.5 billion valuation, partly to explore acquisitions. ​Founded in 2017, Mercury tailors its services to startups and tech-focused businesses. The company partners with Federal Deposit Insurance ...

Infrastructure-as-code provider Pulumi Corp. today announced four product enhancements that are designed to improve security, streamline automation and provide greater control over cloud resources. Pulumi has introduced new features to enhance cloud security and automation, including automated secrets rotation, secure GitHub Actions integration and granular role-based access controls. The company has also expanded its policy-as-code capabilities to ...

A new report out today from security rating firm SecurityScorecard Inc. details a surge in vendor-driven attacks as threat actors increasingly exploit third-party relationships to gain access to their targets. The findings come from SecurityScorecard’s 2025 Global Third-Party Breach Report, based on analysis by the company’s Threat Intelligence Unit of 1,000 breaches across industries and regions ...

Continuous penetration testing startup Strike Strike LLC today announced that it had raised $13.5 million in early-stage funding to scale up in the U.S. and Brazil and to launch Strike360, an artificial intelligence-powered pentesting engine that automates security testing. Founded in 2021 and based in Uruguay, Strike connects ethical hackers with over 100 companies to ...

Artificial intelligence chip-making company Cerebras Systems Inc.’s initial public offering has reportedly been delayed because the company has not yet obtained national security clearance to proceed from the Trump administration. According to Reuters, referencing “five sources familiar with the matter,” Cerebras executives are waiting for the White House to fill key appointments and to wrap ...

ARMO Ltd., the cloud runtime security company behind the open-source Kubernetes security platform Kubescape, today announced the launch of Behavioral Cloud Application Detection and Response, a new solution that unifies runtime security from code to cloud. CADR provides a full, explainable and traceable runtime security story spanning the entire cloud stack and responds to threats ...

Identify verification company Trulioo Inc. today announced new advances in its Identity Document Verification service, including its artificial intelligence and machine learning models. The improvements seek to address a rise in advanced fraud techniques such as ID alterations and deepfakes, which Truiloo noted now account for 16% of all attacks. With the challenge at hand, the company has ...

A new report out today from threat intelligence firm KELA Research and Strategy Ltd. reveals a 200% increase in mentions of malicious artificial intelligence tools on cybercrime forums through 2024, emphasizing how cybercriminals are rapidly embracing AI tools and tactics. The finding comes from KELA’s 2025 AI Threat Report: How Cybercriminals are Weaponizing AI Technology, which used ...

Secure software supply chain solution provider Chainguard Inc. today announced Chainguard VMs, a new product line offering minimal virtual machine images built entirely from source and using no Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. The virtual machine offering has been purpose-built for modern, ephemeral workloads in the cloud and differs from legacy, general-purpose VMs through the use of guarded ...