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.
Security researchers have uncovered a clever attack where hackers use ChatGPT and Grok conversations to distribute malware. The scam places malicious Terminal commands at the top of Google search results, exploiting user trust in big tech brands. It’s a stark reminder to never paste commands you don
Private funding for defense tech is surging in Europe, driven by war and geopolitics. But the real action is concentrated in just two national ecosystems. The UK and Germany are becoming the continent’s launchpads for battlefield innovation.
CISA and its partners have issued a new advisory warning that less sophisticated pro-Russia groups are targeting critical infrastructure. They’re exploiting poorly secured, internet-facing VNC connections to access operational technology. The goal seems to be disruption and notoriety, not high-level
Evertrust, a profitable French cybersecurity firm, just secured €10 million in Series A funding from US VC Elephant. The company is one of only four global vendors with a unified PKI and CLM platform, and it’s planning a major European expansion.
