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DeepSeek’s app becomes unavailable on Apple’s and Google’s app stores in Italy

Hours after Italian authorities requested information from DeepSeek about how the company handles user data, the Chinese AI startup’s app is no longer available in Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store. The app has claimed the top spot in the download charts in multiple countries, including in the U.S. where it is at the…

Engineering giant Smiths Group says hackers accessed its systems during cyberattack

U.K.-based engineering giant Smiths Group has confirmed a cybersecurity incident involving “unauthorized access” to its systems. The London-listed company, which operates across multiple sectors including energy, security, aerospace and defense, said Tuesday that it is currently “managing” the incident. The company said it isolated affected systems and activated its business continuity plans, implying a disruptive…

Uber-backed mobility fintech Moove acquires Brazil’s Kovi, takes ARR to $275M

Uber-backed Moove, an Africa-born mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers across six continents, has acquired Kovi, a Brazilian urban mobility provider. The value of the deal is not being disclosed, but Moove confirmed it was an all-share transaction, and Kovi is now wholly owned by Moove. Moove co-founder and…

The Business Case for Video Analytics: Understanding the Real ROI

GUEST OPINION:  For security professionals who may be hesitant to invest in video analytics, now’s the time to reconsider. In a newly released Omdia report commissioned by BriefCam (now Milestone Systems), the research firm uncovered a compelling story: more than 85% of the organisations surveyed that use video analytics achieve a return on investment within…

The Business Case for Video Analytics: Understanding the Real ROI

GUEST OPINION:  For security professionals who may be hesitant to invest in video analytics, now’s the time to reconsider. In a newly released Omdia report commissioned by BriefCam (now Milestone Systems), the research firm uncovered a compelling story: more than 85% of the organisations surveyed that use video analytics achieve a return on investment within…

Monthly Leadership Roundup: New Year, New Moves for Channel Leaders

The first quarter of the business year is here and organizations are pairing their new annual goals with new changes to their leadership. Managed service providers (MSPs) and IT service providers are bolstering their leadership teams to maximize value, grow customer bases, and strengthen partnerships for 2025. Channel Insider has been following the latest news…

New phishing campaign targets users in Poland and Germany

An ongoing phishing campaign, presumably by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, is seen dropping a new backdoor on victim systems enabling stealthy C2 operations. The backdoor, which Cisco’s Talos Intelligence Unit is tracking as TorNet, was found connecting victim machines to the decentralized and anonymizing TOR network for C2 communications. “Cisco Talos discovered an…

Meteomatics eyes U.S. expansion for its enterprise-focused weather forecasting tools

Martin Fengler knows a lot about the weather. Fengler got his Ph.D. in mathematics, focused on numerical weather prediction, before working for Meteomedia AG, a network of weather stations in Switzerland and Germany. But while he knew a lot about weather forecasting from the prediction side, he realized the gaps that remained on the consumption…

DeepSeek’s AI avoids answering 85% of prompts on ‘sensitive topics’ related to China

AI chatbot DeepSeek has taken the world by storm, topping app store charts and sending Silicon Valley and Wall Street into meltdown. An offshoot of Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, DeepSeek’s cost-to-performance ratio makes for impressive reading compared to incumbents such as OpenAI. However, reports have increasingly documented some of the things the AI chatbot is…

Edinburgh Accelerates Smart City Transformation with Genetec

COMPANY NEWS:  Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), the global leader in enterprise physical security software, today announced The City of Edinburgh Council is using Genetec Security Center as the backbone of its Smart City Strategy. The software is transforming public safety, city services and urban planning by allowing the council to manage all smart city technologies from a…

Edinburgh Accelerates Smart City Transformation with Genetec

COMPANY NEWS:  Genetec Inc. (“Genetec”), the global leader in enterprise physical security software, today announced The City of Edinburgh Council is using Genetec Security Center as the backbone of its Smart City Strategy. The software is transforming public safety, city services and urban planning by allowing the council to manage all smart city technologies from a…

Microsoft probing whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI APIs

Just a few hours after David Sacks claimed DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own models, Bloomberg Law reports that Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek’s use of OpenAI’s application programming interface (API). According to security researchers working for Microsoft, the Chinese company behind the R1 reasoning model may have exfiltrated a large amount of data…

Formance raises $21M to build the AWS for fintech infrastructure

If you talk to a fintech entrepreneur about their business, chances are they’ll end up talking about ledger issues at some point. A ledger is a record of money movements that serves as the source of truth for financial assets, but when a company starts having multiple bank accounts, payment processors and funds spread across…

New SLAP & FLOP Attacks Expose Apple M-Series Chips to Speculative Execution Exploits

A team of security researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ruhr University Bochum has demonstrated two new side-channel attacks targeting Apple silicon that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from web browsers like Safari and Google Chrome. The attacks have been codenamed Data Speculation Attacks via Load Address Prediction on Apple Silicon (SLAP)…

How Interlock Ransomware Infects Healthcare Organizations

Ransomware attacks have reached an unprecedented scale in the healthcare sector, exposing vulnerabilities that put millions at risk. Recently, UnitedHealth revealed that 190 million Americans had their personal and healthcare data stolen during the Change Healthcare ransomware attack, a figure that nearly doubles the previously disclosed total.  This breach shows just how deeply ransomware

Sustainable distribution: Strategies, benefits, and best practices for a greener future

GUEST OPINION: Making distribution sustainable means rethinking how products move from point A to point B. The results demonstrate that companies investing in energy-efficiency technologies can achieve operational savings of up to 50% or more by making their supply chains more sustainable. This isn’t just about using less fuel or different packaging; it’s about making…

Sustainable distribution: Strategies, benefits, and best practices for a greener future

GUEST OPINION: Making distribution sustainable means rethinking how products move from point A to point B. The results demonstrate that companies investing in energy-efficiency technologies can achieve operational savings of up to 50% or more by making their supply chains more sustainable. This isn’t just about using less fuel or different packaging; it’s about making…

Newgen recognised as a ‘Leader’ in IDC MarketScape reports for its Intelligent CCM and Automated Document Generation CCM

COMPANY NEWS: Newgen Software, a global provider of AI-enabled digital transformation platform, has been recognized as a ‘Leader’ in two IDC MarketScape reports – IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Customer Communications Management 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51359124, December 2024) and IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Automated Document Generation and Customer Communication Management 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52111324, December 2024).

Newgen recognised as a ‘Leader’ in IDC MarketScape reports for its Intelligent CCM and Automated Document Generation CCM

COMPANY NEWS: Newgen Software, a global provider of AI-enabled digital transformation platform, has been recognized as a ‘Leader’ in two IDC MarketScape reports – IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Customer Communications Management 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US51359124, December 2024) and IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Automated Document Generation and Customer Communication Management 2024 Vendor Assessment (doc #US52111324, December 2024).

This fintech has a fix for the biggest cross-border payments issues in Francophone Africa

Until a few years ago, it used to be difficult to make payments across borders almost anywhere in the world. But it’s still a big problem in Africa, where fragmented, disconnected systems, high fees, and poor infrastructure make it tough for businesses and individuals to move money quickly and affordably. The majority of people and…

Ex-worker arrested after ‘shutdown’ of British Museum computer systems

London’s world-famous British Museum was forced to partially close its doors at the end of last week, following a serious security breach involving a former IT contractor. Police were called to the museum on Friday after a recently dismissed worker allegedly trespassed onto the museum site and was able to shut down various systems, including…

Shared scooter startup Voi reports its first profitable year as it explores an IPO

Swedish shared micromobility giant Voi had its first profitable year in 2024, according to preliminary unaudited results the company shared exclusively with TechCrunch.  Voi, which offers shared e-scooters and e-bikes across more than 100 markets in Europe, recorded €132.8 million ($138 million) in net revenue in 2024. On an adjusted basis, Voi earned €17.2 million…

CISOs are moving closer to the board — but budget hurdles remain

In recent years, CISOs have often felt that their board of directors did not take them seriously. This key issue for cybersecurity, however, is turning around, with 82% of CISOs now reporting directly to their CEOs, versus 47% in 2023, according to a survey by Splunk. Splunk’s report, which surveyed 500 CISOs, CSOs, and similar security…

Want to be an effective cybersecurity leader? Learn to excel at change management

If there’s one thing that’s inevitable in cybersecurity, it’s change. Ever-evolving technology requires new protections, threats seem to multiply and morph on a daily basis, and even the humblest pieces of software and hardware demand constant updating to stay secure. That work has been increasing as the importance, visibility, and impact of security initiatives have…

UAC-0063 Expands Cyber Attacks to European Embassies Using Stolen Documents

The advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as UAC-0063 has been observed leveraging legitimate documents obtained by infiltrating one victim to attack another target with the goal of delivering a known malware dubbed HATVIBE. “This research focuses on completing the picture of UAC-0063’s operations, particularly documenting their expansion beyond their initial focus on Central Asia,

Broadcom Warns of High-Severity SQL Injection Flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer

Broadcom has alerted of a high-severity security flaw in VMware Avi Load Balancer that could be weaponized by malicious actors to gain entrenched database access. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22217 (CVSS score: 8.6), has been described as an unauthenticated blind SQL injection. “A malicious user with network access may be able to use specially crafted…

Zyxel CPE Devices Face Active Exploitation Due to Unpatched CVE-2024-40891 Vulnerability

Cybersecurity researchers are warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel CPE Series devices is seeing active exploitation attempts in the wild. “Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on affected devices, leading to complete system compromise, data exfiltration, or network infiltration,” GreyNoise researcher Glenn Thorpe said in an alert

Unknown threat actor targeting Juniper routers with backdoor: Report

Network administrators using routers from Juniper Networks are being urged to scan for possible compromise after the discovery that an unknown threat actor has been installing a backdoor in customer routers since at least 2023. The bad news: According to researchers at Lumen Technology’s Black Lotus Labs, the unknown attacker can install a reverse shell…

SoftBank to invest $500M in robotics startup SkildAI

SoftBank is negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a software company building a foundational model for robotics at a $4 billion valuation, Bloomberg and Financial Times reported. The two-year-old company raised its previous funding round of $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation last July from investors including Jeff Bezos, Lightspeed Venture Partners,…

Italy sends first data watchdog request to DeepSeek: ‘The data of millions of Italians is at risk’

The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or possibly part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short Nvidia and other tech stocks. Whichever it might be (maybe both?), DeepSeek and its large language model has made some major waves. Now, it’s…

CISA warns of critical, high-risk flaws in ICS products from four vendors

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Alliance has issued advisories for 11 critical and high-risk vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) products from several manufacturers. The issues include OS command injection, unsafe deserialization of data, use of broken cryptographic algorithms, authentication bypass, improper access controls, use of default credentials, sensitive information leaks, and more. The…

DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts. DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its lead in the AI race…

David Sacks claims there’s ‘substantial evidence’ that DeepSeek used OpenAI’s models to train its own

David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto “czar,” said in an interview on Fox on Tuesday that there’s “substantial evidence” that Chinese AI company DeepSeek “distilled” knowledge from OpenAI’s AI models, a process that Sacks compared to theft. Sacks, who didn’t cite the source of this “evidence,” suggested that DeepSeek used responses from OpenAI models to…

Trump pauses on grants, aid leaves federal cyber programs in state of confusion

A series of Trump administration maneuvers to freeze federal aid has thrown cybersecurity grant programs into doubt for recipients ranging from state governments to small businesses to foreign allies. An Office of Management and Budget memo sent Monday and that went into effect Tuesday directs federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations…

DeepSeek: The Silent AI Takeover That Could Cripple Markets and Fuel China’s Cyberwarfare

David Jemmett, CEO & Founder of CISO Global Unlike Western AI systems governed by privacy laws and ethical considerations, DeepSeek operates under a regime notorious for state-sponsored hacking, surveillance, and cyber espionage. With AI-driven automation at its disposal, China can rapidly scale its cyberattacks, embedding malware, manipulating financial markets, and eroding trust in global AI…

Figure AI details plan to improve humanoid robot safety in the workplace

Safety is often overlooked in the rush to bring humanoid robots to the workplace. As high-profile corporations ranging from retailers like Amazon to carmakers such as Mercedes and BMW have announced humanoid pilots for factories and warehouses, conversations around worker safety are regularly buried beneath industry hype. One Bay Area-robotics firm is hoping to correct…

DEF CON 32 – Top War Stories From A TryHard Bug Bounty Hunter

Author/Presenter: Justin Rhynorater Gardner Our sincere appreciation to DEF CON, and the Authors/Presenters for publishing their erudite DEF CON 32 content. Originating from the conference’s events located at the Las Vegas Convention Center; and via the organizations YouTube channel. Permalink The post DEF CON 32 – Top War Stories From A TryHard Bug Bounty Hunter…

AI is a double-edged sword: Why you need new controls to manage risk

As with just about every part of business today, cybersecurity has been awash in the promises of what AI can do for its tools and processes. In fact, cybersecurity vendors have touted the power of algorithmic detection and response for years. The post AI is a double-edged sword: Why you need new controls to manage…

Bookshop.org challenges Amazon with new e-book platform

Indie bookstore backer Bookshop.org launched an e-book platform on Tuesday, making it easier for readers to buy e-books without padding Jeff Bezos’s pockets. For years, Amazon’s chokehold and sway in the publishing industry have been so strong that authors and booksellers have accused the company of operating a monopoly. Amazon is dominant in the sale…

Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model

Barely a week after DeepSeek released its R1 “reasoning” AI model — which sent markets into a tizzy — researchers at Hugging Face are trying to replicate the model from scratch in what they’re calling a pursuit of “open knowledge.” Hugging Face head of research Leandro von Werra and several company engineers have launched Open-R1, a…

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