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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Information technology service and consulting company NTT DATA Corp. today announced a new partnership with data security company Fortanix Inc. to help enterprises safeguard sensitive data, counter emerging artificial intelligence threats and prepare for looming post-quantum cryptography challenges. The partnership between the two companies sees the launch of a new Cryptography-as-a-Service offering as part of NTT’s data ...

Artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity startup DeepTempo today announced a strategic partnership with data observability and telemetry management company Cribl Inc. to deliver an integrated solution that streamlines telemetry collection and unleashes deep learning-powered detection to stop polymorphic and agentic AI-driven threats. The partnership connects DeepTempo’s Tempo platform, which features the company’s LogLM foundation model for understanding the “language ...

Browser infrastructure platform for artificial intelligence agents startup Kernel Technologies Inc. announced today that it has raised $22 million in funding to scale its platform so AI agents can reliably navigate, persist sessions and securely use the web. Founded earlier this year, Kernel is building what it calls browser infrastructure as a service, a service ...

Artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI Inc. revealed today that it has raised $2 billion in new funding to scale up its open-source frontier AI models, expand global infrastructure and research teams and invest in safety, evaluation and responsible deployment. According to The New York Times, the round was raised on a valuation of $8 billion, ...