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Cisco Systems Inc. is reportedly in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity asset management startup Axonius Inc. According to Ctech by Calcalist, the price Cisco is looking to pay for Axonius is $2 billion. However, a deal is not a forgone conclusion as Axonius …
Palo Alto Networks reportedly explores $400M acquisition of Koi Security
Palo Alto Networks Inc. is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli cybersecurity startup Koi Security Inc. for an estimated $400 million. According to Ctech by Calcalist today, Palo Alto Chief Executive Nikesh Arora visited Israel last month and evaluated local startups for …
Google’s Gemini 3.0 Pro helps solve longstanding mystery in the Nuremberg Chronicle
Google LLC’s Gemini 3.0 Pro large language model has delivered a notable advance in multimodal reasoning by helping decode a long-unexplained handwritten annotation in a 500-year-old copy of the Nuremberg Chronicle. The Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493, is considered one of the …
Apple reportedly plans to push iPhone 18 debut to 2027
Apple Inc. is reportedly planning to delay the release of the iPhone 18 until 2027 as it deals with manufacturing complexity and longer production development cycles. According to MacRumors, the iPhone 18 is not expected to arrive until the spring of 2027, …
China pushes robot access mainstream with Qingtianzhu’s 1 RMB ‘flash rental’ service
Though 2025 may be remembered for the artificial intelligence boom, not far behind has been the emergence of advanced humanoid robotics. And while the U.S. and the West more broadly have somewhat lagged in robotics, China enters the new year arguably well …
European Space Agency investigates breach after hacker claims 200GB data theft
The European Space Agency has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen and then offered for sale a large volume of internal data claimed to be from the ESA. In a statement on X …
New Shai Hulud 3.0 malware variant raises fresh supply chain security concerns
A newly discovered third variant of the Shai Hulud malware is raising fresh concerns about the security of the open-source software supply chain, as researchers warn that the latest version shows more sophistication and improved stealth than earlier campaigns. Shai Hulud is …
Former US cybersecurity professionals plead guilty to BlackCat/ALPHV attacks
Two former American cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty in federal court for their roles in carrying out ransomware attacks using the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat malware, the very type of threat they were employed to defend against. According to the U.S. Department of Justice’s …
Millions of Wired user records leaked in claimed Condé Nast breach
A hacker claims to have leaked a database containing millions of user records tied to Condé Nast Inc.’s Wired magazine, as the data appeared on the Breach Stars cybercrime forum and quickly spread across other underground marketplaces. The dataset, which first surfaced …
US and Australian agencies warn MongoBleed vulnerability in MongoDB is under active exploitation
Cybersecurity authorities in the U.S. and Australia are warning that a critical vulnerability in MongoDB and MongoDB Server is being actively exploited in the wild and represents a threat for organizations that run exposed database infrastructure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 and …