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Phishing defense company Cofense Inc. today unveiled new artificial intelligence-driven detection and automation features for its Phishing Defense Platform aimed at catching coordinated polymorphic phishing campaigns that slip past traditional filters and AI-only tools. The company says the new features shift away from one-email-at-a-time …
JupiterOne targets AI sprawl with new attack surface and vulnerability tools
Artificial intelligence risk management platform provider JupiterOne Inc. today announced the launch of two new offerings aimed at helping security teams get a handle on risk created by the sprawl of AI systems across enterprise environments. The company pitches the two products, …
Idira launches as Palo Alto Networks extends CyberArk tech to machine and agentic identities
Palo Alto Networks Inc. today launched Idira, a new identity security platform designed to manage human, machine and artificial intelligence agent identities across the enterprise under a single privileged access management framework. Idira incorporates technology from CyberArk Software Ltd., the privileged access …
Agentic SOC startup Exaforce closes $125M round at reported $725M valuation
Agentic security operations startup Exaforce Inc. today announced that it has raised $125 million in new funding to scale up its AI-driven security operations platform and expand its real-time threat reasoning capabilities. Though not confirmed directly by Exaforce, TechCrunch reports that the round was …
New Signadot skill lets Claude Code, Codex and Cursor validate changes in live Kubernetes environments
Microservices testing company Signadot Inc. today launched /signadot-validate, a new skill that lets coding agents such as Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code, OpenAI Group PBC’s Codex and Cursor validate their own changes against production-like Kubernetes environments before handing code back to developers. The …
Manifold scores 7,700 MCP servers in Manifest expansion aimed at agent security teams
Artificial intelligence detection and response platform startup Manifold Security Inc. today announced an expansion of its Manifest supply chain intelligence tool to cover Model Context Protocol servers, adding scored entries for more than 7,700 servers pulled from the official MCP Registry. The expansion brings …
AI security startup Grego AI debuts, claims record $250,000 bounty for AI-found exploit
Artificial intelligence cybersecurity startup Grego AI formally launched today with a claimed method of using existing AI models to find critical software vulnerabilities that human auditors and other automated tools routinely miss. Founded in 2024, the company calls its approach Deep Invariant …
With $50M in funding, Frame Security takes aim at AI-powered social engineering
Human risk security startup Frame Security Ltd. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million in funding to build out its platform, which uses artificial intelligence to harden employees against social engineering and deepfake attacks. Frame pitches its platform …
Quiq extends its AI agent platform into voice as enterprise rollouts move past pilots
Artificial intelligence customer service platform provider Quiq Inc. today launched a new voice product and refreshed its brand, betting that customer experience teams are ready to move beyond isolated pilots to scaled production deployments. The new voice capability extends Quiq’s platform into …
Google says criminals used AI to build a working zero-day exploit for the first time
Criminal hackers have used artificial intelligence to develop a working zero-day exploit, the first confirmed case of its kind, according to a report released today by Google LLC’s Google Threat Intelligence Group. The GTIG AI Threat Tracker report details how a criminal …