Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.
Kaspersky outage began within hours of Ukrainian drones shutting down a third Yandex data center, but no link has been confirmed.
The 84% bot collapse after Ukraine’s Yandex strikes was real, lasted about a day, and Cloudflare watched the automation move to rival clouds.
New tech announcements, gifts, and insurance claims work best, Kaspersky found.
AI deepfakes and financial fraud campaigns are already showing up ahead of the US midterm elections in November.

SandboxAQ has added two products to its Switch AI platform. Switch Trust finds a company’s AI agents, tests them for attacks such as prompt injection, and blocks unsafe behaviour. Switch ROI tracks each agent’s spending against outcomes. Both are free …
Around 80 pages on WhatsApp’s website exposed instructions that were designed for its chatbot, including “WHAT NOT TO SAY.” Meta says a bug caused the issue.

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain security law. The order covers third-party tools built on DeepSeek’s models, …