Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Forcepoint X-Labs warns of holiday phishing campaign combining Docusign scams and fake loan offers

A new report out today from cybersecurity company Forcepoint LLC’s X-Labs research team has uncovered a spike in holiday-themed phishing activity that blends impostor Docusign credential harvesting with deceptive loan offer spam that creates a threat for both corporate and consumer targets. The Christmas Docusign-themed phishing campaign abuses the Docusign brand to entice users into ...

Ontinue warns attackers are abusing Nezha monitoring tool as stealthy remote access trojan

A new report out today from Swiss artificial intelligence-powered managed extended detection and response company Ontinue AG warns of the growing abuse of Nezha, a legitimate open-source server monitoring tool, as a stealthy post-exploration remote access trojan. Nezha, initially developed for the Chinese information technology community, has gained nearly 10,000 stars on GitHub and is actively maintained. ...

1Password integrates with Cursor to secure AI-driven development workflows

Cybersecurity and password service provider 1Password LLC today announced a new partnership with artificial intelligence code editor company Cursor Inc. to bring secure, just-in-time secrets to Cursor. The partnership has started with the deployment of a Hooks Script that gives developers a secure, just-in-time way to ensure required secrets are made available to Cursor’s AI agents via ...

Cyata flags agentic AI supply-chain risk in Cursor remote code execution bug

A new report out today from artificial intelligence security startup Cyata Security Ltd. details a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Cursor Inc.’s integrated development environment that exposed risks tied to trusted installation workflows and agentic AI tooling. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-64106 and rated 8.8 in severity, affected Cursor’s Model Context Protocol installation flows and ...

Edison Scientific raises $70M to build autonomous AI scientists for research

Edison Scientific Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup building autonomous AI scientists to help accelerate scientific research, announced today that it has raised $70 million in new funding to expand its operations and development efforts. Founded earlier this year as a spin-off from the nonprofit research organization Future House Inc., Edison Scientific is aiming ...

BlackBerry beats earnings expectations as shares swing after-hours

Shares of BlackBerry Ltd. were volatile in after-hours trading today after the company reported earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal 2026 third quarter. For the quarter that ended on Nov. 30, BlackBerry reported adjusted earnings per share of five cents, up from breakeven in the same quarter of the previous fiscal year, on revenue ...

Fastly report finds bot traffic now makes up nearly a third of all web requests

A new report out today from edge cloud platform provider Fastly Inc. has found that bot traffic continues to reshape the modern web, as artificial intelligence crawlers, fetchers and increasingly sophisticated headless bots drive both operational strain and new business decisions across industries. The findings, detailed in Fastly’s Q3 Threat Insights Report, found that while humans still ...

Ankar raises $20M to expand AI-powered patent operating system

Artificial intelligence operating system for patents startup Ankar.ai Ltd. today revealed that it has raised $20 million in new funding to grow its team and expand further into the U.S. Founded in 2023 in the U.K., Ankar has built an AI-powered operating system for innovation that transforms how companies and law firms generate and protect ...

NIST releases draft AI cybersecurity framework profile to guide secure AI adoption

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a preliminary draft of its Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence which provides guidance for the secure adoption of AI. The draft takes the existing NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 structure that helps organizations manage and communicate cybersecurity risk and adapts it to AI use. CSF ...

ShinyHunters claims theft of Pornhub Premium user data in extortion attempt

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the theft of a large dataset tied to Pornhub Premium users, threatening to leak or sell the information unless the company pays a ransom. The hack of PornHub was first revealed by the adult video website on Dec. 12. It was described as a cybersecurity incident involving ...