Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen
The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
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Instructure strikes deal with hackers who breached it twice
The maker of the Canvas school software said it “reached an agreement” with the hackers, but provided no guarantees that the hackers would not release the data or keep their word.
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Canvas owner reaches ‘agreement’ with hackers to secure stolen data
Instructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management platform, says it has “reached an agreement” with hackers that breached its systems last week to prevent stolen data from being leaked online. The ShinyHunters hacking group claimed responsibility for the attack before Canvas was briefly taken offline. The group threatened to publish 3.5 terabytes of student […]
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OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization’s code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher […]
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Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI
For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), “prominent cyber crime threat actors” were planning to use the vulnerability for a “mass exploitation event” that would have allowed them to bypass two-factor authentication on an unnamed […]
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A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
A baby’s eyes peer directly into the camera lens. A kid with a striped shirt looks up, then away. A boy in a policeman’s costume, a gold star on his chest. A messy bedroom that reminds me of my own daughters, with an unmade bunk bed, a little girl’s hat and headband, and Hello Kitty […]
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A manual pentest costs 50,000 dollars. Intruder built an AI that does it in minutes.
A manual penetration test costs between 10,000 and 50,000 dollars. It takes weeks to schedule, days to execute, and produces a report that is out of date before the ink dries. Intruder, a London-based cybersecurity company that graduated from GCHQ’s Cyber Accelerator, has launched AI pentesting agents that replicate the methodology of a human […]
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Anthropic’s Mythos found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities. The Fed chair called the banks.
Anthropic built an AI model that found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser. The Federal Reserve chair and the Treasury secretary called bank CEOs to discuss it. The company says there is a six-to-twelve month window to patch the flaws before adversaries build models that can do the […]
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Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia’s school for elite hackers, and more.
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Poland says hackers breached water treatment plants, and the U.S. is facing the same threat
A report by Poland’s top intelligence agency accused Russia of sabotage and hacking activities against the country’s military and civilian infrastructure.