Led by existing investor Accel, with participation from Cyberstarts, Redpoint, and CRV, the Series B round brings the total amount raised by the company to $185 million. The post Vega Raises $120M in Series B Funding to Grow Security Analytics Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Transparent Tribe (APT36) is targeting Indian defense and government sectors with GETA, ARES, and Desk RATs in a new wave of economic cyber espionage. The post RATs in the Machine: Inside a Pakistan-Linked Three-Pronged Cyber Assault on India appeared first on SecurityWeek.
SAP has released 26 new and one updated security notes on February 2026 security patch day. The post SAP Patches Critical CRM, S/4HANA, NetWeaver Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an emergent ransomware family dubbed Reynolds that comes embedded with a built-in bring your own vulnerable driver (BYOVD) component for defense evasion purposes within the ransomware payload itself. BYOVD refers to an adversarial technique that abuses legitimate but flawed driver software to escalate privilegesRead More »Reynolds Ransomware Embeds BYOVD Driver to Disable EDR Security Tools
The company will use the investment to expand its R&D team and operations, deepen platform capabilities, and scale go-to-market presence. The post Backslash Raises $19 Million to Secure Vibe Coding appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Are ransomware and encryption still the defining signals of modern cyberattacks, or has the industry been too fixated on noise while missing a more dangerous shift happening quietly all around them? According to Picus Labs’ new Red Report 2026, which analyzed over 1.1 million malicious files and mapped 15.5 millionRead More »From Ransomware to Residency: Inside the Rise of the Digital Parasite
Available via Telegram, researchers warn ZeroDayRAT is a ‘complete mobile compromise toolkit’ comparable to kits normally requiring nation-state resources to develop. The post New ‘ZeroDayRAT’ Spyware Kit Enables Total Compromise of iOS, Android Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Estimated to have infected 7,000 systems, the botnet uses a mass-compromise pipeline, deploying various scanners and malware. The post New ‘SSHStalker’ Linux Botnet Uses Old Techniques appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In 2023, the science fiction literary magazine Clarkesworld stopped accepting new submissions because so many were generated by artificial intelligence. Near as the editors could tell, many submitters pasted the magazine’s detailed story guidelines into an AI and sent in the results. And they weren’t alone. Other fiction magazines haveRead More »AI-Generated Text and the Detection Arms Race
January 5, 2026, Seattle, USA — ZAST.AI announced the completion of a $6 million Pre-A funding round. This investment came from the well-known investment firm Hillhouse Capital, bringing ZAST.AI’s total funding close to $10 million. This marks a recognition from leading capital markets of a new solution: ending the eraRead More »ZAST.AI Raises $6M Pre-A to Scale “Zero False Positive” AI-Powered Code Security
