Cybersecurity training company Hack The Box Ltd. announced today that it has acquired LetsDefend Inc., a provider of a blue team training platform, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2021, LetsDefend offers an interactive cybersecurity training platform that focuses on “blue team” skills development. A blue team is responsible for defending organizations against cyberattacks by ...

Cybersecurity company Remedio today announced that it has raised $65 million in its first-ever funding round to expand internationally, strengthen its U.S. presence and accelerate development of artificial intelligence-driven security management solutions. Founded in 2019, Remedio is a cybersecurity company that focuses on an often overlooked problem in enterprise security: misconfigurations. The company’s platform gives organizations ...

Security ratings firm SecurityScorecard Inc. today disclosed that it recently acquired HyperComply Inc., a Canadian startup that offers an artificial intelligence-powered platform for security questionnaire automation and compliance management, for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2019, HyperComply offers a platform that helps both sales and security teams respond to security questionnaires. The system combines machine learning and ...

Cloud data management and data security company Rubrik Inc. today announced an expanded partnership with CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. with the integration of Rubrik Identity Resilience into the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen Identity Security platform. The new integration is designed to advance identity security by allowing customers to roll back malicious identity changes surgically and restore identity ...

Agentic investment research workflows startup Pascal AI Labs Pvt. Ltd. today announced that it has raised $3.1 million in funding to accelerate product development of its autonomous investment workflows, expand into the U.S. and ink strategic data partnerships. Founded in 2024, Pascal AI offers a vertical artificial intelligence platform purpose-built for the investment management industry ...

Penske Media Corp., the company behind media brands such as Rolling Stone and the Hollywood Reporter, has filed a lawsuit against Google LLC claiming that Google is abusing its monopoly in general search to coerce publishers into handing over their content for free in ways that bolster Google’s own artificial intelligence products. The case is ...

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 ...