Lidar maker Luminar Technologies Inc. today filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection amid mounting debt pressures and slower-than-expected adoption of its autonomous vehicle technologies. The company cited legacy debt obligations and challenging market conditions as key factors behind the filing, emphasizing that the process is designed to maximize value rather than liquidate the business. According ...

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced the general availability of Falcon AI Detection and Response, a service that extends the company’s Falcon platform to secure the artificial intelligence prompt and agent interaction layer. CrowdStrike says AIDR is the industry’s first unified platform that secures every layer of enterprise AI, including data, models, agents, identities, infrastructure and interactions, from ...

With 2025 winding down, cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today released its annual year in review, detailing a colorful 12 months of surging artificial intelligence-driven traffic, rapid adoption of post-quantum cryptography and some of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded. The company’s sixth annual Cloudflare Radar Year in Review analyzes internet trends across traffic, security, outages, ...

Artificial intelligence-powered DevOps automation company DuploCloud Inc. today announced the launch of AI DevOps Engineers, a new service that allows companies to leverage agentic workflows to provision, troubleshoot and optimize infrastructure. AI DevOps Engineers are designed to assist with the issue where, as AI reshapes software operations, DevOps teams are still stretched thin among tasks ...

Cloud workflow management software provider ServiceNow Inc. is reportedly in advanced talks to buy cyber exposure management and security company Armis Inc. in a deal that may be announced in the coming days. Bloomberg reported Saturday that the deal could be valued at as much as $7 billion and would represent the biggest acquisition ServiceNow has made to date. ...

Microsoft Corp. announced today that it is expanding its bug bounty program with a new policy that brings all of its online services, including those supported by third-party and open-source components, into its scope by default. The update, introduced through a new “In Scope By Default” model, marks a significant change to Microsoft’s coordinated vulnerability ...

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today announced a new partnership and technology integration with privileged access management firm Delinea Inc. that connects the Commvault Cloud platform with Delinea’s Secret Server to help joint customers strengthen credential security, support compliance initiatives and streamline data recovery. The new partnership seeks to help with the issue whereby securing user credentials is ...

A new research report out today from cyber risk management company Bitsight Technologies Inc. warns about the security posture of the rapidly growing Model Context Protocol ecosystem by revealing that roughly 1,000 MCP servers are currently exposed on the public internet with no authorization controls in place. MCP is an open-source standard designed to let large language ...

A new report out today from endpoint security firm Morphisec Inc. details a previously undocumented malware family dubbed “PyStoreRAT” that abuses trusted open-source platforms and Windows scripting features to establish remote access on infected systems. A JavaScript-based remote access trojan, PyStoreRAT is delivered through lightweight Python and JavaScript loader stubs hidden inside GitHub-hosted repositories that appear to be legitimate ...

A new report out today from mobile security platform provider Zimperium Inc. warns of a new strain of Android malware that can give attackers the ability to seize near-total control of infected devices through a combination of social engineering, elevated permissions and real-time remote access. Dubbed “DroidLock,” the new malware is distributed through phishing websites that trick users into ...