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As the RSA Conference 2025 unfolds in San Francisco this week, the cybersecurity industry is witnessing a significant influx of capital. According to SecurityWeek’s analysis, more than 30 cybersecurity firms collectively raised more than $1.7 billion in funding in the month of April, underscoring the sector’s robust growth and investor confidence in cyber defense technologies. It’s no surprise that Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerged as a central theme at this year’s RSA Conference. Companies are leveraging AI to enhance threat detection, improve security operations and automate vulnerability management, and address some of the risks associated with use of AI in the…

Google’s Threat Intelligence Group on Tuesday published its analysis of zero-day vulnerability exploitation for 2024. A zero-day is a vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild before a patch was released to the public. This is the definition used by Google and many others in the industry, but some individuals and cybersecurity companies have different definitions, in some cases referring to any new vulnerability — even if it has not been exploited — as a zero-day.  The internet giant reported tracking 75 zero-day vulnerabilities in 2024, a decrease from the 98 observed in 2023, but still more than the…

On Tuesday, Meta is hosting LlamaCon, its first-ever AI developer event. It’ll center around the company’s Llama family of open AI models, and we’re expecting some big updates for developers. Also on the agenda: keynotes from Meta executives and fireside chats with Big Tech CEOs and Meta’s chief, Mark Zuckerberg. Meta is hosting a small number of developers and journalists at its Menlo Park, California headquarters. The company is also livestreaming the big keynotes and firesides for people around the world to tune in. LlamaCon will stream on the Meta for Developers Facebook Page, as well as on the Meta…

Canada’s governing Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Mark Carney has won the national elections for a fourth term in a remarkable comeback prompted in part by unprecedented attacks by United States President Donald Trump. Carney beat opposition Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre on Monday after millions of people voted in snap elections dominated by the big question: Which candidate can better handle Trump, who has slapped tariffs and threatened to annex Canada? Here is a closer look at the results of Canada’s federal elections and what comes next. Who won the election? Soon after 22:00 EDT on Tuesday (02:00 GMT…

BALTIMORE (AP) — A former high school athletics director accused of using artificial intelligence to create a racist and antisemitic deepfake of a Maryland principal has been sentenced to four months in jail as part of a plea deal for disrupting school operations.Dazhon Darien, 32, accepted the deal Monday in Baltimore County Circuit Court, records show. He entered an Alford plea to the single misdemeanor charge, which means he acknowledged the evidence against him without directly admitting guilt. His original charges included theft, stalking and retaliating against a witness.According to police and prosecutors, Darien used AI software to generate a…

Hundreds of companies are showcasing their products and services this week at the 2025 edition of the RSA Conference (RSAC) in San Francisco. To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team is publishing a daily digest summarizing some of the announcements made by vendors. Here is a roundup of the most important product and service announcements made on the first day of the event.   We have also made a list of the announcements made in the days leading up to the event (part 1, part 2, part 3). Abnormal AI launches autonomous agents for employee training  Abnormal AI has…

Yelp said on Tuesday that it’s working on deploying AI-powered “voice agents” to help service providers and restaurants handle calls, answer basic questions, and accomplish tasks like adding a customer to a restaurant waitlist. Yelp says its agents don’t require a complicated setup or API integrations, and can draw from existing metadata along with data from businesses, such as pronunciation guides, customized voice greetings, and call forwarding rules. In the case of a restaurant, for example, Yelp’s agents can connect to the restaurant’s management software to send reservation details to a customer post-call. Yelp’s agents can also handle things like…

Ethan Hunt’s last mission? A new Superman? Happy Gilmore as a dad? Three genre-spanning Pedro Pascal movies, including a romance, a superhero movie and an A24 Ari Aster thriller? Hollywood is pulling out the stops this summer movie season, which kicks off with the release Marvel’s “Thunderbolts(asterisk)” on May 2.May also brings big studio releases like a live-action “Lilo & Stitch,” “Mission: Impossible 8″ and a new Wes Anderson film. June heats up with race cars in “F1,” adventure in “How to Train Your Dragon,” zombies in “28 Years Later” and a New York love triangle with Dakota Johnson’s matchmaker…

Taipei, Taiwan – When United States President Donald Trump began his first term in 2017, he set about implementing the most hawkish economic policy toward China in decades. In the first 100 days of his second term, Trump has taken Washington’s confrontation with Beijing to greater heights still, laying out a staunchly protectionist trade agenda that has led to a de facto trade embargo between the world’s two largest economies. US tariffs on most Chinese goods have risen to 145 percent, with the rate rising to 245 percent on some items, while loopholes that previously allowed Chinese exporters to evade…

Customer Risk Ratings (CRRs) have long been integral to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) frameworks.According to Consilient, despite their importance, many financial institutions continue to use outdated CRR models based on static information, subjective human judgment, and legacy assumptions. The result? Misclassified customers, operational inefficiencies, and increasing regulatory pressure.In collaboration with Richard Hills from K2 Integrity, Consilient detailed that new insights are emerging around building more accurate, transparent, and scalable CRRs. By embracing behavioural data, machine learning (ML), and privacy-preserving collaborative models, institutions can develop smarter and more resilient AML systems to better tackle today’s evolving risks.Traditional CRR models…