Preemptive cyber defense startup Silent Push Inc. announced today that it has raised $10 million in new funding to accelerate innovation, global expansion and customer momentum. Founded in 2020 by former FireEye Inc. Vice President Ken Bagnall and FireEye Research Labs Director John Jensen, Silent Push specializes in preemptive threat intelligence through what the company ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into the practices of seven companies that offer consumer-facing artificial intelligence-powered chatbots designed to act as companies on how the firms measure, test and monitor potentially negative impacts of this technology on children and teens. The inquiry is using the FTC’s 6(b) authority to demand detailed ...

Identity threat detection and response startup Permiso Security Inc. today released a new open-source tool designed to help enterprises detect and mitigate a new class of obfuscation attacks that exploit Microsoft Exchange inbox rules. The new tool seeks to deal with what research from Permisso dubs “Inboxfuscation.” It’s a Unicode-based evasion technique that can create malicious rules ...

Five years after acquiring autonomous vehicle startup Zoox Inc. in a $1.2 billion deal, Amazon.com Inc. today entered the robotaxi market with the debut of a service in Las Vegas. On debut, rides using Zoox robotaxis are free and available via the Zoox app, which is on both Android and iOS. The service is currently ...

Shares in Klarna Group PLC closed up 14.6% in regular trading today after the Swedish fintech company made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. In its initial public offering, Klarna offered around 34.3 million shares at $40 each, raising about $1.4 billion. The shares opened at $52 each before surging to a high of ...

Low-code security automation company Swimlane LLC today announced the next evolution to its Hero AI platform designed to bring agentic artificial intelligence automation deeper into security operations. The evolution allows Hero AI to leverage Swimlane Turbine’s catalog of playbooks and integrations in real time, significantly increasing the productivity of security analysts. The company says that evolution marks ...

A new report out today from tech research site Comparitech looking at the U.K.’s Online Safety Act highlights rising concerns over censorship, surveillance and the unintended consequences of the law since it went into effect earlier this year. The OSA, ostensibly designed to protect children and curb harmful content online, mandates age verification for adult sites and includes ...

SplxAI Inc., a security platform for artificial intelligence company, today announced the launch of AI Asset Management, an extension of the SPLX platform that gives enterprises visibility into their AI models, agentic workflows and infrastructure. AI Asset Management combines AI Bill of Materials generation, vulnerability scanning and agentic workflow analysis into a single solution that ...

Israeli agentless security platform startup Red Access Ltd. announced today that it has raised $17 million in new funding to fuel its U.S. expansion and accelerate product development. Founded in 2021, Red Access offers an agentless security platform designed to transform how organizations protect web sessions. The company says its solution requires no installation of ...

Cybersecurity company Lookout Inc. today announced the launch of Smishing AI, an artificial intelligence-powered solution that aims to stop mobile-based social attacks that target people rather than systems. The new solution addresses the issue whereby traditional phishing defenses rely on identifying telltale signs such as malicious URLs or mismatched sender details, but they’re not suitable for a ...