Gene Sequencing Giant Illumina Settles for $9.8M Over Product Vulnerabilities

Illumina will pay $9.8 million to settle accusations that products provided to the US government were affected by cybersecurity flaws.
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Echo Raises $15M in Seed Funding for Vulnerability-Free Container Images

Echo received funding for creating thousands of container images that are not affected by any CVE, for enterprise-grade software infrastructure.  
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$1 Million Offered for WhatsApp Exploit at Pwn2Own Ireland 2025

Meta is sponsoring ZDI’s Pwn2Own hacking competition, where participants can earn big prizes for smartphone, WhatsApp and wearable device exploits.
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Noma Security Raises $100 Million for AI Security Platform

Noma Security has announced a Series B funding round that will enable the company’s growth and expansion of its AI agent security solutions. 
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Browser Extensions Pose Serious Threat to Gen-AI Tools Handling Sensitive Data 

LayerX has disclosed an AI chatbot hacking method via web browser extensions it has named ‘man-in-the-prompt’.
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Honeywell Experion PKS Flaws Allow Manipulation of Industrial Processes

Honeywell has patched several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in its Experion PKS  industrial process control and automation product.
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BlinkOps Raises $50 Million for Agentic Security Automation Platform

BlinkOps has announced a Series B funding round that brings the total raised by the company for its micro-agents builder to $90 million. 
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