Cybersecurity

Reston, Va. – September 12, 2026 -- Silent Push has launched version 6.1 of its preemptive cyber defense platform, introducing a fully automated Brand and Infrastructure Impersonation engine that continuously hunts look-alike domains before they are weaponized in phishing campaigns.

Rebuilt engine scores and clusters look-alike domains for automated takedown

The new engine scores look-alike domains by risk, enriches them with registrar and hosting context, clusters them by threat actor, and exports the results as takedown evidence. Once configured, the system runs on an ongoing basis, reporting newly discovered impersonation infrastructure to security teams without manual re-scanning.

Düsseldorf – September 12, 2026 -- More than half of German industrial companies have assigned internal teams to prepare their connected products for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), while over 60 percent are also turning to external specialists, according to the new "IoT & OT Cybersecurity Report 2026" from Düsseldorf-based cybersecurity firm ONEKEY. The findings are based on a survey of 200 German industrial companies regarding CRA readiness.

One-fifth of firms have launched full internal CRA teams

Twenty percent of surveyed companies have set up a dedicated internal team to adapt their product range to CRA requirements, while another third have partially assigned staff to the task. Team size varies sharply: 28 percent have assembled groups of up to ten people, and 22 percent have staffed even larger teams. Sixteen percent manage with three or fewer specialists, and 19 percent have assigned no one at all to the issue.

Dublin – September 12, 2026 -- ZeroRisk, an Irish cybersecurity firm serving payment providers, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round to accelerate global expansion and deepen deployment across major payment networks.

MiddleGame Ventures leads $10M round with Elkstone participation

The financing was led by MiddleGame Ventures, with existing investor Elkstone also participating. The capital will fund ZeroRisk's international expansion, further product development, and the operational capacity required to deploy its platform across large merchant portfolios.

Helsinki – September 12, 2026 -- F-Secure and AMD Silo AI have jointly developed a routing technology that decides, per piece of data, whether AI processing happens on-device or in the cloud, aiming to secure consumer digital journeys as autonomous AI agents take over tasks like shopping and payments. The upcoming F-Secure TrustPath solution, built on this approach, is scheduled to enter beta in the fourth quarter of 2026 and reach production in 2027.

Consumer trust in AI has collapsed to single digits

F-Secure research cited in the announcement found that 84% of consumers worry AI makes it impossible to distinguish what is real online, while 44% are wary of using AI itself. Only 17% of consumers currently say they are ready to let AI act on their behalf, a gap the companies frame as a commercial risk for brands deploying agentic AI.

Vilnius – September 11, 2026 -- Surfshark has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Optery, a US-based data removal company, marking the cybersecurity group's second strategic acquisition after Ironwall in 2024.

Surfshark adds Optery's US data broker coverage to its privacy portfolio

Optery specializes in deleting personal information from search engine results, data brokers, and people-search sites, using scanning technology and screenshot-based reporting to track removals. The deal brings Optery's US market expertise into Surfshark's existing ecosystem, which includes Incogni, Ironwall, and HeyPolo.

Optery will operate as a standalone unit, retaining its own team and clients

Surfshark confirmed that Optery will keep separate teams, client bases, and technical architectures from its other brands, following the same autonomous structure used for Ironwall since its 2024 acquisition.

Herzliya, Israel – September 11, 2026 -- Cye, a cyber exposure management provider, has launched a Center of Excellence for Private Equity (PE) designed to give PE firms a consistent, portfolio-wide view of cybersecurity exposure from due diligence through exit.

Cye combines AI-native platform with expert services to standardize portfolio cybersecurity execution

The new operating model merges Cye's expert-led agentic services with its AI-native exposure management platform, targeting a gap where PE firms currently rely on point-in-time assessments at individual portfolio companies rather than continuous, group-level oversight.

Tel Aviv – September 11, 2026 -- Cato Networks, a converged network and security cloud provider valued at $1 billion or more, has joined the World Economic Forum's Innovator Communities as part of its Unicorn cohort, gaining direct access to policy-shaping discussions on cyber resilience and AI security.

Cato enters WEF's Centre for Cybersecurity to address agentic AI risk

The company will engage with the Forum's Centre for Cybersecurity, an independent public-private platform, contributing to flagship initiatives including Cyber Resilience in Industries, the Partnership against Cybercrime, and Cyber Frontiers: AI and Cyber. The move places Cato alongside business, government, civil society, and academic leaders working on systemic cybersecurity challenges tied to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

Tysons Corner, VA – September 11, 2026 -- Merlin will integrate Torq's AI SOC Platform into its SOC Modernization architecture for federal agencies, a partnership that also accelerates Torq's push toward FedRAMP authorization through Constellation GovCloud.

Merlin Validated Solutions unifies fragmented federal security tools into one automated workflow

The agreement places Torq inside Merlin Validated Solutions (MVS), a portfolio of pre-tested, mission-ready architectures. Rather than displacing agencies' existing security investments, MVS links disconnected tools into a single detection-to-response pipeline governed by human-in-the-loop authorization rather than unchecked automation.

Centreville, Va. – September 11, 2026 -- ID Dataweb has been named a "High Performer" and "Easiest To Do Business With" in G2's Fall 2026 Reports, based on verified customer reviews of its identity threat detection and risk mitigation platform.

ID Dataweb holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating on G2, with customers scoring the company 10 out of 10 as a business partner

The company also expanded its presence across G2 report categories compared with the previous quarter, reflecting broader market recognition of its platform among identity and fraud prevention buyers.

G2's Fall 2026 Reports cover more than 28,000 individual market reports released in August

Rankings are compiled from authentic customer reviews and G2's proprietary scoring methodology, evaluating providers on both product performance and market presence.

Pune, India – September 10, 2026 -- QKS Group has positioned Raynet as a Leader in its SPARK MatrixTM: Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), 2026, citing the vendor's integration of device management with deeper technology asset intelligence.

QKS Group ranks Raynet among top UEM vendors for technology and customer impact

The SPARK MatrixTM evaluates UEM vendors on technology excellence and customer impact, benchmarking platforms that manage laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, rugged devices, kiosks, and other enterprise endpoints from a single console. Sofia Ali, Associate Director and Principal Analyst at QKS Group, said Raynet's differentiation stems from linking device management, software lifecycle data, patching, and vulnerability visibility rather than treating them as separate functions.