AI risk and compliance startup HelmGuard today announced raising $7.3 million in seed funding. The investment round was co-led by Infinity Ventures and Frontline, with additional support from FinTech Collective, Stage 2 Capital, and Entrepreneurs First. Founded in 2024 by… Read More "HelmGuard Raises $7.3 Million for Agentic GRC and Security"
AI Is Giving Lesser-Resourced Attackers Nation-State-Level Reach, Google Warns
Adversaries, both criminal and state-sponsored, are increasingly using AI to automate and scale their attacks, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). What started as relatively simple adversarial prompt injection into enterprise AI systems has become a full-blown war, with… Read More "AI Is Giving Lesser-Resourced Attackers Nation-State-Level Reach, Google Warns"
Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy
Meta launched on Tuesday a personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, for people 18 and over who are looking for help with day-to-day tasks like schedules, shopping and, in the company’s words, turning “long-term goals into action plans.” The parent company… Read More "Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy"
US Agencies Warn China Is Systematically Extracting Frontier AI Capabilities
The NSA, CISA and FBI say that China-based AI companies are using the distillation process against US frontier models. “Likely with Chinese government awareness, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens across millions of exchanges/requests… Read More "US Agencies Warn China Is Systematically Extracting Frontier AI Capabilities"
The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents
They cannot be seen, can be tailored to different purposes and once adopted they operate at lightning speed. Hidden AI prompt injections are synonymous with indirect prompts but with the specific quality of being hidden from human overview. Unlike traditional… Read More "The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents"
OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website
OpenAI agents overwhelmed a small German Wikipedia-style website with thousands of posts that fought the moderator to avoid being removed. On September 4, 2026, Reuters reported that ‘a swarm’ of OpenAI agents ‘had hijacked a German wiki site’. Open AI… Read More "OpenAI Agents Hijack Another Victim Website"
Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails
https://www.securityweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Cybersecurity_News-SecurityWeek.jpg Catch, an agentic admin assistant for leaders, has raised $5 million to accelerate its purpose to solve executives’ daily pain points. The funding was co-led by Entrée Capital and Pitango, with participation from Seedcamp and Factorial Capital. Catch, an… Read More "Catch Raises $5 Million for AI Executive Assistant With Guardrails"
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
https://media.wired.com/photos/6a834e91eca883ccd19e5902/191:100/w_1280,c_limit/Security_Inside%20%E2%80%98Nightshift,%E2%80%99%20the%20AI%20Agent%20Flock%20Built%20for%20Police_v1.jpg WIRED analyzed the software by examining code Flock served from its own login portals. Loading those pages returned a user interface for screens that would ordinarily appear only after a police user signed in, letting reporters reconstruct portions of… Read More "Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code"
Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents
https://www.securityweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Agent-AI-Security.jpg Providing security against anomalous autonomous agents requires instantaneous detection, evaluation and action – a circuit breaker for AI rather than a circuit breaker for electricity. Such a ‘device’ has now been developed and released by Capsule Security. The firm… Read More "Capsule Security Launches ‘AI Circuit Breaker’ to Stop Rogue Agents"
AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million
https://www.securityweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Cybersecurity_News-SecurityWeek.jpg If AI agents are the new operating system, then AI add-ons are the new applications; and a new type of AI firewall is required to maintain security. AIR Security is emerging from stealth with $50 million funding and a… Read More "AI Agent Firewall Startup AIR Security Emerges From Stealth With $50 Million"