#cybersecurity

#cybersecurity

"That text message you got about a 'stuck package' from USPS or an 'unpaid road toll'? It's not just spam. It's the calling card of a sophisticated, global scam that has swindled victims out of millions of dollars,"

The superfast evolution of technology can create a digital divide between parents and their teens. Gen X and millennials may have had their childhoods transformed by tech, but they're now parenting generations Z, Alpha and Beta who are traversing entirely different online landscapes, particularly in the world of online gaming. At the same time, cyber-attacks are increasingly in the news, with major players in an array of industries falling victim.

Teleskope - $25M Series A Teleskope, a data protection and security platform, has raised $25M in Series A funding led by M13. Founded by Elizabeth Nammour and Julie Trias in 2022, Teleskope has now raised a total of $32.2M in reported equity funding. AUI - $20M Venture AUI, the company building neuro-symbolic foundation models for task-oriented conversational AI, has raised $20M in Venture funding from New Era Capital Partners and eGateway Capital.

Caitlin Emma, a spokesperson for CBO, told TechCrunch on Friday that the agency is investigating the breach and "has identified the security incident, has taken immediate action to contain it, and has implemented additional monitoring and new security controls to further protect the agency's systems going forward." CBO is a nonpartisan agency that provides economic analysis and cost estimates to lawmakers during the federal budget process, including after legislative bills get approved at the committee level in the House and Senate.

As of November 3, 2025, it has delivered a jaw-dropping 297% one-year return and an almost unbelievable 4,034% over three years. What makes AppLovin special isn't just its growth rate. It's the company's AXON 2.0 technology that's the real star, using AI to match advertisers with the right app users. The results speak for themselves: 35% lower customer acquisition costs for AppLovin's clients and 56% operating margins that would make most software companies jealous.

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Zoom in: Google's team found PromptFlux while scanning uploads to VirusTotal, a popular malware-scanning tool, for any code that called back to Gemini. The malware appears to be in active development: Researchers observed the author uploading updated versions to VirusTotal, likely to test how good it is at evading detection. It uses Gemini to rewrite its own source code, disguise activity and attempt to move laterally to other connected systems.

Armis, a nine-year-old cybersecurity startup based out of San Francisco, intends to follow in these companies' footsteps. The company said on Wednesday that it has raised a $435 million pre-IPO round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. CapitalG made a significant investment in the round, and new investor Evolution Equity Partners also participated. The round values Armis at $6.1 billion, a meaningful jump from the $4.5 billion tender offer valuation the startup announced in August.

The infosec program run by the US' Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) "is not effective," according to a fresh audit published by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG). A summary of the report, dated October 31 and published on Monday, stated that since the OIG's previous audit, the CFPB's overall cybersecurity posture has decreased from level-4 maturity, defined as "managed and measurable," to level-2 maturity - "defined."

For years, law firms have long relied on in-house IT infrastructure to keep sensitive information secure and maintain operational control, but it's incredibly unsustainable. Legacy systems now constrain growth, limit innovation, and make it harder to adopt modern tools that enhance client service and efficiency. Today, the question isn't to move to the cloud-but to do it strategically. Success requires more than technology adoption; it demands disciplined execution, governance, and cultural readiness.

Williams, a 39-year-old Australian citizen who was known inside the company as "Doogie," admitted to prosecutors that he stole and sold eight exploits, or " zero-days," which are security flaws in software that are unknown to its maker and are extremely valuable to hack into a target's devices. Williams said some of those exploits, which he stole from his own company Trenchant, were worth $35 million, but he only received $1.3 million in cryptocurrency from the Russian broker.

According to the Office for National Statistics, there were 4.2 million fraud incidents in England and Wales for the year ending March 2025 (ONS). That's a massive 31% increase year-on-year. It's the highest number of fraud instances since the ONS records began in 2017. The issue is that online fraud is becoming so much more sophisticated than it ever was because of artificial intelligence. Fraud is more convincing than ever, so the strategy is emerging to use the same technology for detection and deterrence.

Once a fringe curiosity, the deepfake economy has grown to become a $7.5 billion market, with some predictions projecting that it will hit $38.5 billion by 2032. Deepfakes are now everywhere, and the stock market is not the only part of the economy that is vulnerable to their impact. Those responsible for the creation of deepfakes are also targeting individual businesses, sometimes with the goal of extracting money and sometimes simply to cause damage.

It was a sunny morning in late April when a massive power outage suddenly rippled across Spain, Portugal, and parts of southwestern France, leaving tens of millions of people without electricity for hours. Cities were plunged into darkness. Trains stopped and metro lines had to be evacuated. Flights were cancelled. Mobile networks and internet providers went down. Roads were gridlocked as traffic lights stopped working.

But ultimately, this is all the result of bad software, ridden with vulnerabilities. "We don't have a cybersecurity problem. We have a software quality problem," she said. The main reason for this was software vendors' prioritization of speed to market and reducing cost over safety. AI is making attackers more capable, helping them create stealthier malware and "hyper-personalized phishing," and also to spot and surface vulnerabilities and flaws more quickly.

According to PwC's 2025 Global Compliance Survey, [1] more than 40% of global companies reported at least one compliance failure that led to fines, penalties, or back pay. Staying on top of regulatory compliance requirements has only gotten more complex, and the stakes have never been higher. TD Bank's USD 3.1 billion penalty for "pervasive and systemic failure to maintain an adequate" anti-money laundering (AML) compliance program [2] demonstrates this and has incentivized companies of all sizes to invest in compliance training platforms that can be used to demonstrate compliance in audits and regulatory defense scenarios.

Cyber Security Festival 2025, one of the regions premier cybersecurity event, is set to bring together over 1,200 IT professionals, experts, and thought leaders - including David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder of 37signals, and New York Times-bestselling author. Two days of discussions, hands-on workshops, and networking await participants. Taking place on November 4-5, 2025, at TAP1 in Copenhagen, the festival will tackle the most pressing challenges in cybersecurity, from AI-driven threats to geopolitical cyber warfare.

The victims included a municipal water facility where pressure values were changed, an oil and gas company whose tank gauge was tampered with, and a farm silo where drying temperatures were altered, "resulting in potentially unsafe conditions if not caught on time." Officials stressed these weren't sophisticated, state-sponsored operations but opportunistic intrusions that caused real-world disruption ranging from false alarms to degraded service. The attackers didn't need custom malware or insider access either - just a connection and curiosity.

They got even chattier last week after OpenAI and Microsoft kicked the AI browser race into high gear with ChatGPT Atlas and a "Copilot Mode" for Edge. They can answer questions, summarize pages, and even take actions on your behalf. The experience is far from seamless yet, but it hints at a more convenient, hands-off future where your browser does lots of your thinking for you.

Meanwhile, in Warsaw and Vilnius, shoppers flee as flames engulf two of the largest city malls. Investigators soon discover the arsonists are teenagers recruited online, guided by encrypted messages, and paid by actors connected to hostile state agencies. The chaos sows fear, erodes social trust, and sends shockwaves through European communities-proxy sabotage that destabilizes societies while providing plausible deniability to those orchestrating the acts.

According to some estimates, tech debt, or the costs incurred when having to constantly fix aging or clunky software systems, has ballooned to more than $1.52 trillion in the U.S. alone. With technology like agentic AI being heavily embedded on top of companies' aging technology systems and operations, this rising cost of tech debt makes sense. Many organizations are quickly implementing new technologies without addressing underlying systems first.

Cisco's recent AI Readiness Index shows that in EMEA, only 11% of companies are completely ready for AI compared to 13% worldwide. This is a number that hasn't changed much in three years. While 82% of organizations intend to use AI, and 44% anticipate a significant increase in AI workloads within a year, only 30% believe their current IT infrastructure can support today's AI technologies.

One only has to look at the official figures released by the UK's Gambling Commission to see that online gambling is a booming sector. Now worth £6.9 billion a year, it outstrips the land-based activity that recorded a gross revenue of £4.6 billion for the period between April 2023 and March 2024. The real stars of the show are the online casinos, responsible for £4.4 billion in revenue and,