Unit 8200 is an elite Israeli military signals-intelligence unit whose alumni have founded many cybersecurity and tech startups.
Paragon, maker of the Graphite spyware, will go public through a Nasdaq SPAC merger at a $1.25 billion pre-money enterprise value. The price rests on $267 million in revenue, up 29%, earned jointly with REDLattice, a contractor to US defense and government agencies.
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Huskeys closed $27m five months after leaving stealth, with Blackstone leading what Globes calls the firm's first early-stage cybersecurity round. The cheque is worth about 0.002% of its assets.
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Upwind has acquired the AI security startup Aegis and is standing up an in-house unit aimed at the risks around AI agents, skills and plugins, and at attacks generated with frontier models, a deal Axios reported first.
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The Series B takes MIND to $112 million raised against a $10 million run rate, and Crosspoint supplied about half of it. The $300 million price assumes Eran Barak hits $100 million of revenue within two years.
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Sequoia led the seed and co-led the Series A, so the same investor helped set the price twice for a 23-person company whose only disclosed commercial proof is one customer that ripped out two rival products.
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AITAN's round is $41m of a $54m lifetime total, which puts about $820,000 behind each of its roughly 50 staff. With no valuation or revenue disclosed, the underwritable number is a fleet log.
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The company's researchers count 17,800 public add-ons pulling unverified instructions, a number produced by the same firm selling the fix, which still leaves operators with an inventory problem they own either way.
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Tenable says autonomous agents mapped 21 Taiwanese government systems in four days. The way in was discoverable federation configuration and weak credentials, not a novel exploit.
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