Duncan Riley

Articles by Duncan Riley

Stripe buys AI model router OpenRouter in reported $7.5B deal

Crypto August 20, 2026

Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at $7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the repoοΏ½...

AegisAI banks $36M as AI spear phishing surges fivefold in a year

Crypto July 24, 2026

Email security startup AegisAI Inc. today said it has raised $36 million in new funding to counter a fast-growing class of artificial intelligence-generated email attacks that no amount of employee tοΏ½...

PitchBook forecasts cautious improvement for venture-backed IPOs in 2026

Crypto January 29, 2026

A new report out today from PitchBook Data Inc.Β offers a cautiously optimistic outlook for U.S. venture capital-backed initial public offerings in 2026, arguing that although the IPO window has reope...

Pentera Labs warns vulnerable demo apps are being actively exploited in the wild

Crypto January 22, 2026

Vulnerable training and demo applications exposed to the public internet are being actively exploited and used as entry points for full cloud account compromise at major enterprises, including FortunοΏ½...

European Space Agency investigates breach after hacker claims 200GB data theft

Crypto January 1, 2026

The European Space Agency has confirmed that it suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen and then offered for sale a large volume of internal data claimed to be from the ESAοΏ½...

Former US cybersecurity professionals plead guilty to BlackCat/ALPHV attacks

Crypto December 31, 2025

Two former American cybersecurity professionals have pleaded guilty in federal court for their roles in carrying out ransomware attacks using the notorious ALPHV/BlackCat malware, the very type of thοΏ½...

ShinyHunters claims theft of Pornhub Premium user data in extortion attempt

Crypto December 18, 2025

Infamous hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for the theft of a large dataset tied to Pornhub Premium users, threatening to leak or sell the information unless the company pays a raοΏ½...