A new report out today from software supply chain security firm Sonatype Inc. details how the infamous North Korea-backed hacking group Lazarus has intensified its cyber espionage operations by embedding sophisticated malware into open-source packages. The report details that Sonatype detected and blocked 234 unique malicious packages tied to Lazarus between January and July this year, ...

Threat hunting startup Nebulock Inc. announced today that it has raised $8.5 million in new funding to fuel the expansion of its autonomous threat hunting capabilities, enhance its cross-telemetry correlation engine and scale up its engineering and go-to-market teams. Founded in 2023, Nebulock offers an artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity platform that delivers autonomous threat hunting capabilities ...

Shares in Freshworks Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading today after the customer service and support software firm reported earnings and revenue ahead of expectations in its fiscal second quarter. For the quarter that ended on June 30, Freshworks reported adjusted earnings per share of 18 cents, up from eight cents in the same quarter ...

Cybersecurity solutions and services provider Specter Ops Inc. today announced the release of BloodHound v8.0, the latest version of its open-source attack path management security platform. The new release includes significant product expansions and enrichments for both the BloodHound Community Edition open-source tool and the BloodHound Enterprise platform. BloodHound v8.0 sees the introduction of BloodHound OpenGraph, a ...

Pangea Cyber Corp., a startup providing security guardrails for artificial intelligence applications today announced the launch of Pangea AI Detection and Response. It’s a new security platform to monitor, detect and secure generative AI across the enterprise, covering employee AI use, homegrown AI applications and AI factories. Pangea AIDR is being pitched as marking a major ...

Israeli cybersecurity startup Seal Cybersecurity Solutions Inc. today revealed that it has raised $13 million in new funding to accelerate its go-to-market efforts and expand its core vulnerability remediation platform. Founded in 2021 by former members of Israel’s Unit 8200 intelligence unit, Seal Security offers application security focused on eliminating vulnerabilities in open-source components through automated, production-ready ...

Enterprise cybersecurity automation platform Blink Operations Inc. today revealed that it has raised $50 million in new funding to accelerate its go-to-market efforts and scale  updeployment of its no-code cybersecurity micro-agents platform. Founded in 2021, BlinkOps offers cybersecurity automation that gives organizations the ability to build, collaborate on and scale up security workflows via artificial intelligence-driven, no-code ...

Microsoft Corp. today introduced a new Copilot Mode in its Edge browser, aiming to redefine how users interact with the web by turning Edge into a task-oriented, agentic artificial intelligence assistant. The new Edge Copilot feature, launching in preview today, combines search, chat and browser navigation into a single experience, in what Microsoft describes as ...

Security operations startup Dropzone AI Inc. revealed today that it has raised $37 million in new funding to accelerate development of specialized autonomous AI security agents and deepen its ecosystem partnerships and integrations. Founded in 2020, Dropzone AI builds artificial intelligence-native security operations center analysts capable of autonomously triaging and investigating security alerts. The company’s ...

Cloud-native threat detection and response startup RAD Security Inc. today announced the launch of RADBots, autonomous digital workers that help security teams investigate faster, explain risk clearly and automate actions across the tech stack. Launching ahead of the annual Black Hat USA 2025 conference, each RADBot has a clear role, tracking sensitive data, monitoring shadow artificial intelligence, ...