Venture Spending in Cybersecurity During Q3 2022 Dropped to Lowest Level Since Q4 2020
Funding dropped 10% between Q2 22 and Q3 22, total number of deals climbed by 9% from Q2 22 to Q3 22, average deal value dropped by 21% from Q2 22 to Q3 22
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OpenAI, Pentagon revise AI deal's surveillance limits, but commitments may be hollow
Israel spent years hacking Tehran's traffic cameras and phone networks, Iranian hacking groups' efforts have been negligible and opportunistic, Internet collapse in Iran has cut off hackers, Gulf ships bombarded with GPS attacks, Starlink has sustained Iran's Handala hackers, much more
AI safety red lines tested as OpenAI replaces Anthropic in last-minute Pentagon deal
Israel reportedly hacked a widely used Iranian prayer app to urge military defections, Unconfirmed reports suggest large-scale cyberattacks in Iran, S. Korea's tax service exposed millions of crypto wallets' seed phrases, European retailer ManoMano breach exposed 38m customers' PII, much more
Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/21/26
Tracking down the culprits in the Polish energy cyberattack, How China uses geo-blocking as reverse censorship, How Russia maneuvered spy satellites alongside Western satellites, Secure provenance methods can maintain effective cybersecurity, Uncovering UK crypto exchanges that moved money to Iran
Gottumukkala is out as acting CISA director
Intellexa founder and three others sentenced to prison, Anthropic rejects Pentagon's weakened guardrails, Google employees oppose AI use in surveillance and autonomous weapons, Project Compass led to the arrest of 30 mostly young suspects, Medical device maker UFP hit by cyberattack, much more