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NCC Group report finds ransomware activity plateaued in November as tactics evolve
A new report out today from information assurance firm NCC Group PLC finds that global ransomware activity plateaued in November even as attackers continued to refine their tactics and collaboration models. The findings come from the NCC Group November 2025 Cyber Threat Intelligence Report. It found that ransomware incidents dipped slightly month-over-month but remained elevated, ...
Cyderes acquires Lucidum to strengthen identity-aware security data foundation
Managed cybersecurity services company Cyderes LLC today announced that it has acquired security data fabric and entity intelligence firm Lucidum Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Lucidum offers a security data fabric platform that is designed to give organizations a comprehensive, real-time view of their digital environment. The company has an aim to ...
Google tests CC AI agent to summarize email, calendars and documents
Google LLC, through its Google Labs division, today rolled out a new artificial intelligence agent that is designed to help users manage daily tasks by summarizing information across email, calendars, documents and the web. Called CC, the new tool, is built on Google’s Gemini AI models. Google calls it an early look at how agent-based ...
Adaptive Security raises $81M to expand AI-driven social engineering defense platform
Social engineering defense startup Adaptive Security Inc. today revealed that it has raised $81 million in new funding to expand its platform and accelerate product development. Founded in 2024, Adaptive is taking on the threat of artificial intelligence-powered social engineering with a mission to protect organizations from next-generation threats that exploit human trust rather than ...
Sonar adds architecture controls to keep fast-growing codebases structurally sound
Code quality testing startup SonarSource Sàrl today introduced a major expansion of SonarQube that brings full software architecture management into its code quality and security platform for the first time. The new capability helps development teams keep their code clean and prevents structural erosion that often occurs as systems evolve. The issue the expansion is seeking to ...
Fortinet brings FortiGate-VM security to Nvidia BlueField-3 for AI factories
Cybersecurity company Fortinet Inc. today announced an integrated solution featuring FortiGate-VM, its virtual cloud firewall, running directly on the Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing unit. The integration embeds networking and brings isolated infrastructure acceleration into the AI factory, allowing core security functions to run on BlueField instead of the host. An AI factory is a data center environment purpose-built to develop, ...
Vectra AI targets hybrid attack gaps with unified control framework
Threat detection and response firm Vectra AI Inc. today outlined a new platform-wide approach to hybrid security that unifies prevention, detection, response and resilience reporting across the full attack lifecycle. The updates to the Vectra AI Platform introduce a lifecycle-wide control model designed to give security teams consistent, measurable control before, during and after cyberattacks. Vectra AI ...
Human Security brings cryptographic verification to Amazon Bedrock agents
Cybersecurity company Human Security Inc. today announced support for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore browser in its AgenticTrust service to ensure that artificial intelligence-powered agents built on Amazon Web Services Inc. infrastructure are cryptographically signed and secure. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is a platform for building and deploying agents securely at scale. The AgentCore browser tool allows agents to interact ...
Palo Alto Networks warns that AI is driving a surge in cloud security risks
Artificial intelligence dominated tech news through 2025 and not surprisingly, it also became extremely prominent when it comes to increasing security risks, according to a new report out today from Palo Alto Networks Inc. The Palo Alto Networks’ State of Cloud Security Report 2025 draws on survey data from more than 2,800 security and technology ...
Dux launches with $9M seed round to tackle AI-driven cyber exposure
Agentic exposure management startup Dux Technologies Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $9 million in funding to grow its U.S. go-to-market organization and accelerate development of its platform’s agentic capabilities across exploitability analysis, lightweight mitigation and continuous exposure management. Dux was founded by Or Latovitz, Amit Nir and Nadav Geva (pictured), ...









