Opengear, a Digi International company, has announced it has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 compliance. The company says these certifications are a key part of doing the “heavy lifting” on security for its channel partners.
Managed security provider Cyderes has acquired Lucidum, a small firm specializing in identity security. The deal adds 10 employees and key technology that Cyderes plans to use as a backbone for its managed services and future agentic AI systems.
Security researchers have uncovered SantaStealer, a new malware being sold on a subscription model. It’s designed to steal a wide array of data from Windows systems, but its current capabilities don’t live up to all its claims.
Google is discontinuing its Dark Web Report, a tool that scanned for user data on criminal marketplaces. The service stops monitoring on January 14, 2026, and all collected data will be deleted by February 16. The company says it’s focusing on more “actionable” security tools instead.
Google is killing its Dark Web Report monitoring tool, which scans for stolen personal info. New breach detection stops Jan. 15, 2026, with a full shutdown on Feb. 16, 2026. All user data will be permanently deleted.
Fraud-fighting startup Verisoul just landed an $8.8 million Series A round led by High Alpha. The company claims to stop AI bots and fake users with a holistic platform, but the arms race against AI fraud is just heating up.
A massive data breach at fintech firm 700Credit has exposed the personal information of 5.8 million car buyers. The data, including Social Security numbers, was stolen via a misconfigured API over a five-month period. Affected customers are being offered free credit monitoring.
Following the critical CVE-2025-55182 disclosure on December 3, a flood of proof-of-concept exploits has hit GitHub. While most are broken or malicious slop, security teams warn that a handful are effective and dangerous, including some deploying the Godzilla webshell.
In a significant shift, a key US banking regulator has given five cryptocurrency companies preliminary approval for national trust bank charters. This marks a major step in the industry’s long quest for mainstream legitimacy and regulatory clarity.
Merchants are losing an estimated $50 billion to wrongly declined orders. A new report details how fragmented fraud tools are creating friction and failure, pushing the industry toward unified “fraud orchestration” platforms to fight back.
