In short: Meta has suspended its collaboration with Mercor, a $10 billion AI data startup, after a supply chain attack exposed what may be the AI industry’s most closely guarded secrets: not just personal data, but the training methodologies that power…
WhatsApp has notified approximately 200 users, primarily in Italy, that they were tricked into installing a counterfeit version of the messaging app that was actually government spyware. The fake application was built by SIO, an Italian surveillance te…
Somewhere in Hasbro’s network, someone was where they should not have been. The $14.4 billion toy and entertainment conglomerate, owner of Peppa Pig, Transformers, Monopoly, Dungeons & Dragons, Nerf, Play-Doh, and Power Rangers ,disclosed on Wednes…
The inbox has long been the softest entry point in enterprise security. As phishing campaigns grow more convincing, more personalised, and increasingly powered by generative AI, the tools designed to stop them have been locked in a reactive cycle: wait…
Every year since roughly 2018, the cybersecurity industry has declared that passwords are dying. Passkeys, biometrics, and FIDO2 hardware tokens would replace them. The promise was elegant: no more breached vaults, no more credential stuffing, no more …
The Milan cybersecurity firm’s Series B bets that predictive defence, not reactive detection, is how banks survive the AI fraud wave For more than a decade, Cleafy has been telling banks that waiting for fraud to happen before responding to it is a los…
The global average cost of a data breach fell to USD 4.44 million in 2025, a 9 per cent drop and the first decline in five years, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report. On the surface, that looks like progress. Security AI and automation are …
The global cost of cybercrime surpasses billions of dollars annually, with phishing/spoofing, personal data breaches, and extortion accounting for a significant share of losses. According to Cordell Robinson, CEO of Brownstone Consulting Firm, the scal…
In a small office in Košice, Slovakia, a group of malware analysts leaned closer to glowing screens. At first look, the code before them looked like another Android Trojan: familiar routine, familiar ambitions. But something about this one hinted at a…
Belgian cybersecurity startup Aikido Security has closed a $60 million Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, marking a rare unicorn milestone for a European security company and highlighting the accelerating interest in developer-centric se…