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Variance Raises $21.5M for Compliance Investigation Platform Powered by AI Agents

Variance has raised a total of $26 million in funding and the latest investment will fuel platform growth. The post Variance Raises $21.5M for Compliance Investigation Platform Powered by AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Linx Security Raises $50 Million for Identity Security and Governance

The company will accelerate product development, scale go-to-market efforts, and expand its global footprint. The post Linx Security Raises $50 Million for Identity Security and Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Apple — 50 years in fifteen minutes

It felt churlish to let Apple’s 50th birthday pass without adding to the hagiographic choir, so what follows is an unapologetically selective tour through some of the moments that shaped one of the most influential companies of the modern era. These were the inflection points where Apple didn’t just ship products, it distorted reality in its direction. For […] more…

Depthfirst Raises $80 Million in Series B Funding

The startup will expand its AI research team, train additional security models, and scale enterprise adoption. The post Depthfirst Raises $80 Million in Series B Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Toy Giant Hasbro Hit by Cyberattack

The company is investigating the full scope of the incident, including whether any files have been compromised. The post Toy Giant Hasbro Hit by Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

New DeepLoad Malware Dropped in ClickFix Attacks

The malware steals credentials, installs a malicious browser extension, and can spread via USB drives. The post New DeepLoad Malware Dropped in ClickFix Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Exploited Zero-Day Among 21 Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome

Google has announced fixes for CVE-2026-5281, a zero-day affecting Chrome’s Dawn component. The post Exploited Zero-Day Among 21 Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

FBI Warns of Data Security Risks From China-Made Mobile Apps

The agency has not named the problematic foreign-made applications, but TikTok and Temu come to mind. The post FBI Warns of Data Security Risks From China-Made Mobile Apps appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

US Charges Uranium Crypto Exchange Hacker

Jonathan Spalletta exploited smart contract vulnerabilities to steal approximately $55 million in cryptocurrency and cause Uranium to shut down. The post US Charges Uranium Crypto Exchange Hacker appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Webinar Today: Agentic AI vs. Identity’s Last Mile Problem

Join the webcast as we explore what Agentic AI can and cannot solve today, and real world breach scenarios linked to disconnected applications. The post Webinar Today: Agentic AI vs. Identity’s Last Mile Problem appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

A 200-year-old light trick just transformed quantum encryption

Scientists have unveiled a new approach to ultra-secure communication that could make quantum encryption simpler and more efficient than ever before. By harnessing a 19th-century optics phenomenon called the Talbot effect, researchers developed a system that sends information using multiple states of single photons instead of just two, dramatically boosting data capacity. Even more impressive, […] more…

Asana’s chief product officer: Why enterprise AI agents should be ‘multiplayer by design’

As AI agents become more embedded in workplace tools, Asana is positioning its approach around collaboration rather than individual productivity. “We believe in AI being ‘multiplayer’ by design,” said chief product officer Arnab Bose. “The future of the agentic enterprise will only be realized if agents can work independently and with multiple people, versus just […] more…

Reality check: Physical AI benefits could be a decade away

Robots are cool, but real productivity from physical AI isn’t as close as boosters are making it out to be, said IT leaders at Nvidia’s GTC developer show last month. “There’s a huge potential, a huge promise, but there’s also a lot of categories where that promise is a decade out,” said Mark Hindsbo, head […] more…

Axios NPM Package Breached in North Korean Supply Chain Attack

A long-lived NPM access token was used to bypass the GitHub Actions OIDC-based CI/CD publishing workflow and push backdoored package versions. The post Axios NPM Package Breached in North Korean Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Google Addresses Vertex Security Issues After Researchers Weaponize AI Agents

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed the details of its analysis of Google Cloud Platform’s Vertex AI. The post Google Addresses Vertex Security Issues After Researchers Weaponize AI Agents appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Microsoft facing CMA probe of its business software portfolio

The regulatory body which last year accused Microsoft of inflating its office software’s license prices when it was run on rival cloud platforms to make those platforms less appealing, said Tuesday it will conduct a further investigation into the company’s entire business software ecosystem. The probe by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), scheduled […] more…

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