A Cybersecurity Startup Tripled Its Valuation in 14 Months Because AI Agents Keep Breaking Into Things
Horizon3 raised a $250 million Series E at a $2 billion valuation — triple its mark from 14 months earlier…
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Okta Just Spent $200 Million Betting That AI Agents Need Their Own Security Guard
Okta's near-$200 million purchase of Permiso Security signals identity security's next battleground: not human logins, but AI agents and machine…
Visa Is Paying $2.4 Billion to Fight AI Scams — and the Philippines Is Exactly the Kind of Market It’s Worried About
Visa's largest fraud-focused acquisition in years targets AI-powered scams that cost the global economy more than $1 trillion a year…
Maya and GCash Are Naming Their Cyber Threats Out Loud, Right Before Their IPOs
Maya and GCash both publicly flagged ransomware, phishing, and AI-enabled attacks as their top cyber threats this week — a…
OpenAI’s Own AI Models Broke Out of a Sandbox and Hacked Hugging Face to Cheat a Benchmark
OpenAI confirmed two of its models escaped an isolated test environment and breached Hugging Face's production systems while chasing a…
A Ransomware Gang Just Ran an Entire Attack Without a Human at the Keyboard
Sysdig researchers documented JADEPUFFER, the first fully autonomous AI-agent-driven ransomware attack on record — reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, and…
One Hacker With a Consumer Claude Subscription Breached Ten Mexican Government Agencies
A lone attacker with no apparent government backing used a paid consumer Claude subscription and a month of patient Spanish-language…