Breach containment company Illumio Inc. today announced the launch of Illumio Insights, a cloud detection and response solution powered entirely by an artificial intelligence security graph. The new Illumio Insights can observe and protect every workload and resource, including across hybrid and multicloud environments. The service provides AI-powered observability into an organization’s traffic, flows and connections, surfacing ...

Apple Inc. is seemingly adopting an ethos of “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” amid a report that the company is readying two new Vision Pro headsets to replace its failed first attempt at entering the mixed reality headset market. Apple analyst Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who is usually fairly accurate about ...

All new technologies have their tipping points where they go from enthusiast to mainstream. Artificial intelligence, a term coined by John McCarthy in 1956 that has long held the imagination of many, has seemingly now hit that tipping point, but not for the reason scientists and science fiction writers could have guessed: Japanese anime cartoons. ...

A new report out today from SentinelLabs, the research arm of cybersecurity company SentinelOne Inc., details a recently discovered artificial intelligence-powered spam tool that automates large-scale abuse of website contact forms and chat widgets by bypassing CAPTCHA protections. First observed in late 2024, “AkiraBot” has successfully targeted at least 80,000 of more than 400,000 websites scanned, primarily ...

A new report out today from Darktrace Ltd. details how its artificial intelligence-powered platform detected and responded to a series of “spam bombing” attacks designed to overwhelm email systems and disguise more targeted infiltration attempts. Spam bombing attacks, also known as “email spam bombs,” involve overwhelming a target’s inbox with a flood of unsolicited emails, typically ...

A new report out today from internet intelligence company DomainTools LLC warns that threat actors are using newly registered domains to deliver the SpyNote Android remote access trojan via sites that mimic Google Play app installation pages. In trying to imitate legitimate Google Play app listings, the cloned pages often feature image carousels and familiar visual elements to ...

A new report released today by cybersecurity services company GuidePoint Security LLC finds that ransomware hit a record high in the first quarter of 2025 as the number of victims surged to more than 2,000 and the landscape became increasingly fragmented with 70 active threat groups. The finding comes from the GRIT 2025 Q1 Ransomware & ...

Blockchain technology company Ripple Labs Inc. announced today that it has acquired multi-asset prime brokerage firm Hidden Road Inc. for $1.25 billion. Founded in 2018, Hidden Road is a prime brokerage firm specializing in over-the-counter services for digital assets. The company offers a range of services, including clearing, prime brokerage and financing across various asset classes, such ...

Application security testing company CodeSecure Inc. today announced a new strategic partnership with open-source compliance and security platform provider FOSSA Inc. and introduced a product integration that allows organizations to eliminate security blind spots associated with third-party and open-source code. The partnership sees CodeSecure’s CodeSentry Binary Composition Analysis capabilities integrated into FOSSA’s software supply chain ...

Google LLC today announced new artificial intelligence enhancements in Google Workspace that expand its Gemini-powered productivity tools to help organizations automate complex workflows, improve content creation and better analyze data. Leading the list of announcements from the annual Google Cloud Next developer conference in Las Vegas is Google Workspace Flows, a new agentic AI tool ...