Coram raises $35M to turn security cameras into autonomous AI investigators
Coram raises $35M to turn security cameras into autonomous AI investigators

Coram AI has raised $35m to turn the security cameras already bolted to walls into something closer to an autonomous detective. The Series B is co-led by the new investor Ansa Capital and Battery Ventures, with UP Partners, 8VC and Mosaic Ventures join…

South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach
South Korea hits Coupang with record $409 million fine over massive data breach

South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped e-commerce giant Coupang with a record-breaking 624.7 billion won ($409 million) fine, the largest data breach penalty in the country’s history. The ruling, handed down today by the Personal Information Protec…

Avast’s former CEO built an AI that found every OpenSSL zero-day this year. Now it runs inside air-gapped networks.
Avast’s former CEO built an AI that found every OpenSSL zero-day this year. Now it runs inside air-gapped networks.

AISLE, the cybersecurity startup founded by former Avast CEO Ondrej Vlcek, launched Snapshot on Tuesday, a product that deploys its AI vulnerability scanner inside a customer’s private cloud, on-premises data centre, or fully air-gapped environment. So…

The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday
The researcher Microsoft threatened just dropped a seventh Windows zero-day hours after Patch Tuesday

Chaotic Eclipse, the security researcher Microsoft threatened with criminal prosecution, has published a seventh Windows zero-day exploit. Called RoguePlanet, it grants attackers SYSTEM privileges on fully patched Windows 10 and 11 machines. The resear…

Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email
Researchers tricked an OpenClaw AI agent into leaking AWS keys and customer data with a phishing email

Security researchers at Varonis built an OpenClaw email agent, connected it to a Gmail inbox with fake company data, and then phished it. The agent, dubbed Pinchy, handed over AWS credentials, database connection strings, and a customer export without …

A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure
A Chinese state-linked botnet has grown to 1,500 hacked routers and is mapping vulnerable targets within hours of disclosure

A covert botnet linked to Chinese state-sponsored hackers has more than doubled in size and is now scanning for newly disclosed vulnerabilities within hours of publication. The JDY botnet comprises over 1,500 compromised small office and home office ro…

KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s computer, then shared the files with its CEO
KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s computer, then shared the files with its CEO

KPMG secretly and repeatedly accessed a whistleblower’s work computer to extract documents detailing their allegations of data misuse, then shared the material with senior partners and the firm’s former chief executive, the Australian Financial Review …

Aryon Security raises $29M to stop cloud breaches before they happen
Aryon Security raises $29M to stop cloud breaches before they happen

Aryon Security, an Israeli cloud-security startup, has raised $29M in a Series A round to push a prevention-first approach to securing the cloud. The round, which the company says brings its total funding to $38M, was led by US-based Brightmind Partner…

Your face is the ticket: Google’s Gemini and biometric gates are the World Cup’s quieter tech story
Your face is the ticket: Google’s Gemini and biometric gates are the World Cup’s quieter tech story

The 2026 World Cup is rolling out two layers of technology that most of its 10 million visitors will actually touch: a consumer-AI layer led by Google, and a biometric-identity layer that turns a fan’s face into a ticket. This is the quieter half of th…

Two Russian APT groups are exploiting a WinRAR flaw patched nearly a year ago to hit Ukraine
Two Russian APT groups are exploiting a WinRAR flaw patched nearly a year ago to hit Ukraine

Two Russian state-linked hacking groups are actively exploiting a path traversal vulnerability in WinRAR that was patched nearly a year ago, using it to deploy credential-stealing malware against Ukrainian government and military targets, according to …