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Security Point Break tracks the companies, products and market moves shaping cybersecurity. Marketplace News covers security vendors, product launches, funding, acquisitions, partnerships and competitive shifts, with context on what those developments mean for security teams, technology buyers and the broader cybersecurity industry.
Senate Acts After NJ, Alabama Water Cyberattacks
Sens. Schiff and Klobuchar introduced the Water Cyber Shield Act to improve water-sector cybersecurity, allocating $300 million annually and empowering the EPA to assess vulnerabilities.
Critical NASA Ground-Station Flaw Could Let Attackers Run Code, Send Spacecraft Commands
A critical security flaw in NASA's fprime-gds software allows remote access without authentication, risking control over spacecraft operations.
SonicWall VPN Flaw Chain Gives INC Ransomware Root Access
INC Ransomware threat actors exploited a critical pre-auth bypass flaw and pairing it with a privilege-escalation bug to gain root on SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances.
Facebook Rolls Out Real-Person Verification Badge
As generative AI makes fake profiles easier to produce, Meta is asking users to record a video selfie in exchange for a badge signaling they're a real person.
Nvidia, CrowdStrike, 30+ Firms Launch Open Secure AI Alliance
Nvidia, CrowdStrike and dozens of rivals-turned-partners are betting that "open" beats regulated — building shared AI security tools now, before Washington decides who gets to use frontier models at all.
Cruciferra Crypter Service Fuels Multi-Gang Malware Campaigns
Sold for up to $2,000 a month, the tool disables security software and hides malware so well it slips past detection tools unnoticed.
Beacon Security Joins the Agentic Data Layer Gold Rush With $13M Seed Round
Beacon Security is the newest entrant in a crowded race to build the AI-ready security data layer — running alongside Databahn, Abstract Security, Cribl, and Fortinet.
Firefox Patches Two Critical Bugs as Exploit Code Goes Public
Mozilla says it has not detected attacks exploiting the WebAssembly and site-isolation vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 152.0.6
Dell Patches Critical Flaw in Exascale Storage Hardware: PowerFlex
Dell disclosed three PowerFlex Manager vulnerabilities this week, led by a 9.1-severity flaw that lets a privileged remote attacker run commands as root with no user interaction required.
AI Crawlers Surge on Bank Websites, Radware Data Shows
Traffic from AI training and retrieval bots on financial services sites jumped more than 50% in a single month during the first quarter, new Radware data shows.