Cyber Defense
More Than 20 Cyber Incidents Turn October 2026 Into a Black October
From PHP2Shell and poisoned software releases to cloud breaches and AI-assisted attacks, October’s security incidents revealed how quickly digital vulnerabilities can become operational threats. Cybersecurity is becoming a race against time, with organizations facing shrinking windows to detect, patch, and contain threats before they escalate into real-world attacks. A wave of major cybersecurity incidents and […]
OpenAI Pauses Some Astra Work Over Critical Cyber Risk
OpenAI has run into a rare problem with its next-generation model: Astra may be advancing faster than the security controls built around it. Internal evaluations showed significant gains in agentic coding and cybersecurity, pushing OpenAI to pause some work involving the unreleased model while stronger safeguards are put in place. The key concern is unusually […]
Beelzebub Raises €3M for AI-Native Cyber Defense
Most cybersecurity products are built to stop an attacker at the network perimeter. Beelzebub starts from a less comfortable assumption: the attacker may already be inside. The Milan-based cybersecurity startup has raised €3 million in Seed funding, led exclusively by United Ventures. The round follows an earlier €300,000 pre-seed investment and brings the company’s total […]