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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has declared a “coalition of the willing” would come together to draw up a peace plan to end the war in Ukraine and present it to United States President Donald Trump for his support, days after a public spat between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House signalled a rupture in Washington’s support for Kyiv. By contrast, Zelenskyy received assurances of support on Sunday from his European allies at a security summit in London hurriedly arranged by Starmer, who greeted the Ukrainian leader with a hug. On Friday, a meeting between Trump…

Ransomware defense company Mimic has announced raising $50 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $77 million. The new investment round was led by Google Ventures (GV) and Menlo Ventures, with additional support from existing investors Ballistic Ventures, Shield Capital, Team8, and Wing Ventures. Founded in 2023, the Palo Alto, California-based startup has built a ransomware-focused platform that can detect attacks early and stop them in real time, before they can harm critical enterprise assets. Relying on detection technology that targets ransomware exclusively and focused on combating cyber extortion, the company…

Browser company Opera has unveiled a new AI agent called Browser Operator that can complete tasks for you on different websites. In a demo video, the company showed the AI agent finding a pair of socks from Walmart; securing tickets for a football match from the club’s site; and looking up a flight and a hotel for a trip on Booking.com. Opera said that the feature will be available to users through its Feature Drop program soon. It’s not clear if the agent can work on individual websites or if it can understand and accomplish wider queries like, “Find me…

The US government last week announced that it has seized roughly $31 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen in April 2021 from Uranium Finance. Uranium Finance was hacked twice in April 2021, with the total losses amounting to over $53 million, making it one of the largest hacks in decentralized finance (DeFi) at the time. According to blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs, which investigated the transactions linked to the heist and helped authorities trace the stolen funds, the attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Uranium Finance’s smart contract code to steal various tokens. In the first incident, which occurred between April 6 and…

Rohit plays down venue advantage, says Dubai “not our home” ground so team expects “some nervy times”. Blessed with a venue advantage and with a depleted Australia at their disposal, India will be gunning for revenge when the familiar foes clash in the first semi-final of the Champions Trophy on Tuesday. India have stuck to their position of not touring Pakistan because of the strained political relations between the Asian neighbours, who play each other only in global events. The International Cricket Council (ICC), headed by former Indian board secretary Jay Shah, has drawn flak for allowing India to play…

Twenty-eight cybersecurity-related merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in February 2025.  An analysis conducted by SecurityWeek shows that 405 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2024. Check out the detailed report.  Here is a list of the most important cybersecurity M&A deals announced in February 2025: A10 Networks acquires ThreatX Protect Network security and application delivery solutions provider A10 Networks has acquired ThreatX Protect to expand its cybersecurity portfolio with web application and API protection (WAAP) capabilities. A10 has acquired the ThreatX brand and the TX Protect WaaP solution, and the remaining ThreatX assets will be rebranded as…

President Donald Trump was poised to impose 25% taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico Tuesday and to double to 20% his levies on Chinese products. All three countries — America’s top trading partners — are threatening retaliation.The United States last year did nearly $2.2 trillion in the trade of goods — exports plus imports — with the countries the president is targeting: $840 billion with Mexico, $762 billion with Canada and $582 billion with China.Trump has declared an economic emergency in order to justify the duties, marking the most aggressive use of tariffs by the United States since the…

Volker Turk tells the UN Human Rights Council that policies meant to protect marginalised people are being called ‘discriminatory’.The United Nations human rights chief has expressed deep concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” by the United States under President Donald Trump, warning that divisive rhetoric is being used to deceive and polarise people. “We have enjoyed bipartisan support from the US on human rights over many decades. … I am now deeply worried by the fundamental shift in direction that is taking place domestically and internationally,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights…

Ransomware operators have been observed deploying a vulnerable Paragon Hard Disk Manager driver in attacks and exploiting it to elevate their privileges to System. The driver, Biontdrv.sys, which is part of Hard Disk Manager and other products that rely on it, such as Paragon Partition Manager and Backup and Recovery, contains five vulnerabilities that allow attackers to elevate privileges or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. “Additionally, as the attack involves a Microsoft-signed driver, an attacker can leverage a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) technique to exploit systems even if Paragon Partition Manager is not installed,” a CERT/CC advisory reads.…

Indian stock brokerage firm Angel One on Friday disclosed a data breach impacting client information stored in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. The incident, the company said, was discovered after it received an email alert from a ‘dark web monitoring partner’ on February 27, regarding a ‘data leakage post’. “After analyzing the post, it was ascertained that some of Angel One’s AWS resources were compromised,” the company said. Angel One says it immediately changed the passwords for its AWS cloud and related applications, and that it retained external experts to investigate the incident, assess the scope of the data…