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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Dragos debuts Platform 3.0 to speed operational technology cyber defense

Industrial control system cybersecurity company Dragos Inc. today announced the launch of Dragos Platform 3.0, the latest update to its platform that delivers new capabilities that empower industrial defenders to protect faster against intensifying cyber threats. The new platform introduces an Insights Hub that consolidates risk-based vulnerability, asset and threat alerts into a single prioritized view. It ...

Darktrace reveals ShadowV2 botnet exploiting Docker misconfigurations in AWS

A new report out today from Darktrace Ltd. reveals a sophisticated cybercrime campaign that blends traditional malware with cloud-native design principles, exposing how threat actors are evolving distributed denial-of-service operations into fully fledged “as-a-service” platforms. The campaign detailed in the report, dubbed “ShadowV2,” is a Python-based command-and-control framework hosted on GitHub CodeSpaces. The operation uses a Python ...

Google DeepMind expands frontier AI safety framework to counter manipulation and shutdown risks

Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind lab today rolled out the third version of its Frontier Safety Framework to strengthen oversight of powerful artificial intelligence systems that could pose risks if left unchecked. The third iteration of the framework introduces a new focus on manipulation capabilities and expands safety reviews to cover scenarios where models may resist ...

Omnea raises $50M to power AI-driven supplier relationship management

Procurement software startup Omnea Ltd. revealed today that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate the shift to a new era of artificial intelligence-powered supplier relationship management. Founded in 2022, Omnea offers a procurement intake and orchestration platform built to modernize how enterprises manage supplier relationships. The company focuses on simplifying procurement ...

Sumo Logic introduces Dojo AI to bring agentic intelligence to security operations center teams

Data analytics software firm Sumo Logic Inc. today announced the launch of Sumo Logic Dojo AI, an intelligent, agent-powered security operations service that accelerates and simplifies routine security operations and helps customers move from reactive to proactive strategies to stay more secure. Dojo AI has been built to help enterprises address the growing volume and complexity of ...

Mycroft launches with $3.5M to bring agentic AI to security and compliance

Agentic artificial intelligence security startup Mycroft Technologies Inc. launched today and announced that it has raised $3.5 million in funding to accelerate product development and expand its AI-powered security and compliance operations. Founded in 2024, Mycroft offers an AI-native cybersecurity and compliance platform that has been built to deliver end-to-end protection and regulatory oversight through ...

Orchid Security debuts SailPoint-certified orchestration to cut identity management fragmentation

Security orchestration company Orchid Security Inc. today announced new capabilities in its identity-first orchestration platform that are aimed at reducing fragmentation and accelerating identity governance and administration adoption. The new release, officially SailPoint Technologies Inc.-certified, has been designed to address one of the greatest challenges in enterprise identity and access management today: the operational pain created by ...

CrowdStrike expands Falcon with next-gen identity security and AI-era data protection

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced major innovations in identity and data security to wrap up its annual Fal.con 2025 event, with new capabilities designed to address the risks created by hybrid environments and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. The announcements, which build on the company’s Falcon platform, are aimed at closing persistent gaps left by ...

ServiceTitan launches Atlas AI sidekick to automate contractor operations

Cloud business software provider ServiceTitan Inc. today announced a new suite of AI-powered tools for contractors, led by Atlas, an artificial intelligence sidekick designed to automate back-office operations from the first call to the final invoice. Atlas has been designed to act like the ultimate power user of ServiceTitan and over time will have the capabilities to ...

Eagl raises $975K to bring AI agents to month-end close in finance

Belgian fintech agentic platform startup Eagl BV announced today that it had raised €825,000 ($975,000) in new funding to accelerate the development of its artificial intelligence-native Financial Agentic Platform, expand its AI and engineering teams and scale across Europe. Founded in April this year, Eagl is building an AI-native financial operations platform designed to transform ...