Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in all-cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch…
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Google completes $32B acquisition of Wiz
Google has officially acquired Israeli cybersecurity firm Wiz for $32 billion in all-cash, a full year after the companies announced the deal. This marks Google’s biggest acquisition in its history. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch…
DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says
A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new job. This article has been…
Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup
Mandia, who sold his previous company Mandiant to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has launched an agentic security startup. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Mandiant’s founder just raised $190M for…
U.S. military contractor likely built iPhone hacking tools used by Russian spies in Ukraine
Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs. This article has…
An iPhone-hacking toolkit used by Russian spies likely came from US military contractor
Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs. This article has…
An iPhone-hacking toolkit used by Russian spies likely came from U.S military contractor
Google found a series of hacking tools they said were used by a Russian espionage group and a cybercriminal group in China. Sources from a U.S. government defense contractor said some of those hacking tools were theirs. This article has…
OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its AI agents
This deal underscores how frontier labs are scrambling to prove their technology can be used safely in critical business operations. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: OpenAI acquires Promptfoo to secure its…
Salt Typhoon is hacking the world’s phone and internet giants. Here’s everywhere that’s been hit.
Salt Typhoon is by far one of the most prolific hacking groups in recent years, breaching some of the top American phone companies. Here are all the countries that have been targeted. This article has been indexed from Security News…
Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users, Dutch spies warn
Dutch intelligence is accusing Russia-backed hackers of running a “large-scale global” hacking campaign against Signal and WhatsApp users. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Russian government hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp users,…
Ring’s Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his answers may not help
The facial recognition question is where things get more tangled. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Ring’s Jamie Siminoff has been trying to calm privacy fears since the Super Bowl, but his…
Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks
In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — fourteen of them classified as “high-severity.” This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities…
TriZetto confirms 3.4M people’s health and personal data was stolen during breach
Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people had personal and health information stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year. This article has been indexed from Security News…
FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: Report
Hackers allegedly broke into the FBI’s networks, according to a report by CNN. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: Report
FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: report
Hackers allegedly broke into the FBI’s networks, according to a report by CNN. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: report
Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware
Italian authorities are making progress in their investigation into a wide-ranging spyware scandal in Italy involving Paragon spyware. But the mystery of who hacked two Italian journalists with Paragon spyware continues. This article has been indexed from Security News |…
FYI: Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach
Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here’s what we’re doing about it, and what you can look out for. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article:…
Google says half of all zero-days it tracked in 2025 targeted buggy enterprise tech
Enterprise software was a major focus of zero-day activity during 2025, with security and networking devices, like firewalls, VPNs, and virtualization platforms, among the top targeted by malicious hackers. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read…
US and EU police shut down LeakBase, a site accused of sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools
Authorities say LeakBase was “one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals,” and maintained an archive of hacked databases containing hundreds of millions of passwords. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article:…
A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into Apple iPhones have been found used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for “second hand” exploits. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the…