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Cyera Secures $400M to Scale AI-Native Data Security Platform and Enterprise Adoption

Cyera announced a $400 million Series F round, pushing its valuation to $9 billion and bringing total funding above $1.7 billion. The capital, led by Blackstone and backed by existing investors, will accelerate its AI‑native data security platform and global expansion. The company now...

PoC Released for Unauthenticated RCE in Trend Micro Apex Central (CVE-2025-69258)

Trend Micro issued a critical patch (Build 7190) for its on‑premise Apex Central platform, addressing three remotely exploitable flaws disclosed by Tenable. The most severe, CVE‑2025‑69258, enables unauthenticated attackers to inject a malicious DLL into MsgReceiver.exe and gain SYSTEM‑level code execution....

IPFire Update Brings New Network and Security Features to Firewall Deployments

IPFire released Core Update 199, bringing Wi‑Fi 6 and Wi‑Fi 7 support, native LLDP/CDP discovery, and a Linux 6.12.58 kernel. The update upgrades Suricata to version 8.0.2 and refines OpenVPN handling, including multiple DNS/WINS pushes. It also patches a proxy‑related CVE and improves web‑interface...

StackRox: Open-Source Kubernetes Security Platform

StackRox is an open‑source Kubernetes security platform that unifies build‑time image scanning, configuration analysis, and runtime telemetry. It ingests data from container images, Kubernetes APIs, and live cluster activity to drive policy checks covering vulnerabilities, privilege escalation, and network exposure....

What Happens to Insider Risk when AI Becomes a Coworker

In a Help Net Security video, Living Security CEO Ashley Rose explains that AI’s integration into everyday workflows expands the definition of insider risk to include autonomous agents and automated processes. She notes that most risky actions stem from broken...

Voice Cloning Defenses Are Easier to Undo than Expected

Researchers at a Texas university demonstrated that popular noise‑based voice‑protection tools can be stripped away, restoring speaker identity and enabling cloned voices to pass verification. They introduced VocalBridge, a diffusion‑based system that removes protective noise while preserving natural speech characteristics....

Deals•Jan 8, 2026

Cyera Raises $400M in Series F Round, Valuation Hits $9B

Cyera announced a $400 million Series F funding round, bringing total funding to over $1.7 billion and valuing the company at $9 billion. The round was led by Blackstone funds and included participation from existing investors such as Accel, Coatue, Sequoia Capital...

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Debian Seeks Volunteers to Rebuild Its Data Protection Team

The Debian Project announced that its Data Protection Team has become inactive after all three members stepped down simultaneously. The responsibilities for handling privacy inquiries, maintaining the public privacy policy, and processing data‑subject requests have temporarily shifted to Project Leader...

WWT Introduces ARMOR, a Vendor-Agnostic Framework for Secure AI Readiness

World Wide Technology (WWT) unveiled ARMOR, a vendor‑agnostic AI Readiness Model for Operational Resilience built with NVIDIA. The framework spans six security domains—from governance and risk to model, infrastructure, operations, SDLC, and data protection—providing end‑to‑end guidance across cloud and on‑prem...

Hexnode XDR Unifies Detection, Investigation, and Response in One Platform

Hexnode has introduced Hexnode XDR, an extended detection and response platform that consolidates threat detection, investigation, and remediation into a single interface. The solution embeds a unified dashboard, real‑time correlation, contextual alerts and one‑click remediation, and it integrates tightly with...

Keysight Empowers Engineering Teams to Build Trustworthy AI Systems

Keysight Technologies launched the AI Software Integrity Builder, a lifecycle‑based platform that unifies dataset analysis, model validation, and inference testing for AI systems. The tool is aimed at safety‑critical domains such as automotive, helping engineers demonstrate transparency, reliability, and regulatory...

When AI Agents Interact, Risk Can Emerge without Warning

New research from the Fraunhofer Institute shows that interactions among AI agents can generate systemic risks even when each agent follows its own design parameters. The study identifies feedback loops, shared signals, and coordination patterns as mechanisms that produce emergent...

What European Security Teams Are Struggling to Operationalize

Kiteworks’ 2026 forecast reveals European security and compliance teams have robust regulatory policies but weak operational execution. AI‑specific incident response, software‑supply‑chain visibility, third‑party coordination, and compliance automation all lag global averages. Adoption rates for AI anomaly detection, SBOM management, and...