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From January to April 2026, Kaspersky security solutions* detected more than 33,300 attacks on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) globally, in which malicious or unwanted software for PCs were disguised as popular artificial intelligence (AI) services. This number has surged by almost five times when compared to the same
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Cybersecurity startup Hush Security today announced raising $30 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $41 million. The fresh investment came from Akamai Technologies and previous backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. Founded in 2024, Tel Aviv-based Hush Security emerged from
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Mal, an Abu Dhabi fintech startup, closed a $230 million seed round in January 2026, the largest seed round in Middle East and Africa history, to build what it describes as the world's first AI-native Islamic digital bank. By May, it had secured in-principle approval from the UAE
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Microsoft has introduced a new suite of AI-powered security tools engineered to continuously identify, manage, and patch software vulnerabilities. Headlining the release is MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, the tech giant’s first domain-specific AI model built specifically for code security and vulnerability analysis, along with Project Perception, an autonomous agentic platform designed to
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang are due in Senator Mark Warner’s office this week, and the meeting was arranged only days after one of OpenAI’s own models did something no frontier system had publicly managed before. Warner, the vice-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
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Google has announced that Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is adopting a new cryptonym-based naming convention for tracking threat actors. According to the internet giant, the schema moves away from sequential numbers and disparate identifiers, relying instead on two-word combinations for each activity cluster. The first word, Google explains, is
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A new global survey of nearly 2,000 tech leaders shows the CIO job has been rewritten in the space of a year. The org chart hasn’t caught up yet. A year ago, a CIO’s job was fairly easy to describe: keep the systems running, keep the data
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By Krishnakumar Kamath, Cybersecurity Consultant, Experion Technologies On an ordinary Tuesday morning, a product leader I know received a message that made the room go quiet: “Why is our application talking to a new destination?” Nothing had crashed. The dashboards were calm. Yet the traffic was real and it was
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Threat actors have been exploiting a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Fastjson, security researchers warn. A popular JSON processing library for Java, Fastjson was developed by Alibaba for JSON serialization and deserialization. Tracked as CVE-2026-16723 (CVSS score of 9), the unauthenticated bug impacts all deployments running as a
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GLM-5.2 is a Chinese open-weight AI model challenging Claude and GPT-5.5 with powerful coding, long-context reasoning, and AI agent capabilities. Artificial Intelligence is evolving at an unprecedented pace, and open-source models are no longer just affordable alternatives to proprietary AI systems. They are now challenging the industry'
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Arista Networks on Monday released patches for a critical-severity OS injection vulnerability in the VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) centralized management platform, warning that it has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The security defect is tracked as CVE-2026-16812, has a maximum CVSS score of 10, and could be exploited
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Australian power company Origin Energy Limited said the recent data breach affects 900,000 current and former customers. Origin Energy, which has roughly 4.8 million customers, is one of Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailers. The company recently started investigating a cybersecurity incident and determined that threat actors
