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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HackerOne advances offensive security with agentic AI system, general availability of HackerOne Code

Offensive security solutions firm HackerOne Inc. today announced the expansion of its artificial intelligence-driven offensive security platform. The updates includes the evolution of its Hai AI system into a coordinated team of agentic AI agents and the general availability of its AI-native code security product, HackerOne Code. They’re aimed at redefining continuous threat exposure management by accelerating how ...

MCPTotal launches end-to-end platform for safe enterprise adoption of MCP

Secure Model Context Protocol platform company MCPTotal today announced the launch of its flagship platform, one that’s designed to help businesses adopt and secure MCP servers. MCP is an emerging open standard that defines how artificial intelligence models connect and interact with external systems, data sources and applications in a structured, secure way. The standard ...

Blumira debuts SOC Auto-Focus to enhance AI-driven threat investigations

Security operations platform startup Blumira Inc. today announced the launch of SOC Auto-Focus, an artificial intelligence-powered security investigations tool as well as enhancements to its managed service provider partner program. The new SOC Auto-Focus is designed to help information technology teams and MSPs work smarter, reduce alert fatigue and accelerate incident response through contextual intelligence ...

Aiden launches AidenRescue to automate Windows device recovery after ransomware attacks

Windows endpoint management company Aiden Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of AidenRescue, a new solution for recovering and rebuilding Windows devices after a ransomware attack or other catastrophic information technology failure. AidenRescue is built on Aiden’s Full-Provisioning technology and can fully wipe, rebuild and reconfigure any compromised device without relying on local infrastructure, recovery ...

Whisper 2FA kit steals Microsoft 365 credentials and MFA tokens in real time

A new report released today by cloud cybersecurity firm Barracuda Networks Inc. details a rapidly evolving phishing-as-a-service kit dubbed Whisper 2FA that’s designed to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and multifactor authentication tokens in real time. First detected in July 2025, Whisper 2FA represents the latest wave of industrialized phishing operations that combine advanced web technologies, layered obfuscation ...

Ploy raises $3.33M to tackle rising identity-based cyberthreats with automation

U.K. cybersecurity startup Join Ploy Ltd. revealed today that it has raised £2.5 million ($3.33 million) to accelerate product development and expand its go-to-market efforts globally. Founded in 2023 by Chief Technology Officer Harry Lucas and Chief Executive Officer Jacob Prime, the former heads of engineering and sales at data security solution company Metomic Ltd., Ploy is ...

Ververica debuts Flink Agents to bring autonomous AI to real-time data streams

Ververica GmbH, the original creator of Apache Flink, today announced a new open-source sub-project of Apache Flink called Flink Agents, an embedded intelligent artificial intelligence system that feeds directly into business data flows. Apache Flink is an open-source framework that can process streams of data with the help of a programming model that allows real-time ...

Justice Department targets Cambodia pig butchering syndicate in $15B bitcoin seizure and sanctions sweep

The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it has seized about $15 billion in bitcoin from a man who oversaw a so-called pig butchering operation in Cambodia, the largest bitcoin seizure by the department in its history. Along with the bitcoin seizure, the Justice Department also indicted U.K. and Cambodian national Chen Zhi, also ...

LevelBlue acquires Cybereason, Imprivata buys Verosint in twin cybersecurity deals

Two notable acquisitions were announced in the cybersecurity space today as managed security provider LevelBlue Inc. revealed plans to acquire Cybereason Inc., while healthcare identity and access management firm Imprivata Inc. announced the purchase of Verosint Inc., an identity threat detection and response company. LevelBlue, which until May 2024 was known as AT&T Cybersecurity, said ...

Archive360 teams with Microsoft to deliver AI-powered eDiscovery and compliance solutions

Information archiving and management platform company Archive360 Inc. today announced a new collaboration with Microsoft Corp. to deliver artificial intelligence-powered eDiscovery and compliance solutions. The collaboration sees Archive360’s governed data cloud combined with Microsoft’s AI capabilities through Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models to allow large enterprises to conduct sophisticated investigations while maintaining strict data governance ...