Security and AI news from the week beginning 17 November 2025
Palo Alto became the latest company to spend big to expand its platform. It announced its plans to acquire observability platform Chronosphere for $3.35 billion. Bugcrowd also made an acquisition, Mayhem Security. While it hasn’t disclosed the amount, it told Security Week that this deal would almost double its valuation, which was $1 billion in Feb 2024.
The fallout from the Cl0p ransomware group’s exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite impacted Cox Enterprises. It allowed access to sensitive personal information and is believed to have occurred in August 2025 but has only just been reported.
Google launched Gemini 3, claiming it achieved a record 1501 Elo score on LMArena and 37.4 on Humanity’s Last Exam, surpassing GPT-5 Pro.
Anthropic has claimed it has identified the first known AI-automated hacking campaign. It says that Chinese-backed actors used AI agents to target tech and financial firms. While it claims the campaign was a failure, it has raised concerns over future attacks.
French AI company Mistral AI secured $2 billion in a Series C round, the largest AI funding in European history. The investment underscores growing confidence in non-US AI companies. Will it now lead to a rush of investments in European companies?
OpenText and Google are deepening their partnership to deliver new solutions. They are building new solutions to support customers as they deploy AI and address data privacy. They are also going to support sovereign cloud infrastructure, a subject that was on the agenda at OpenText World 2025 in Nashville this week.
Exabeam and Recorded Future want to change the way Threat Detection and Response (TDR) is done. They are partnering to power an intelligence-led TDR built on an integration between products from both companies. The announcement is an extension of the existing partnership between the two vendors. It is expected to make it easier for security analysts to understand alerts.
At Workday Rising, the company announced the launch of the Workday EU Sovereign Cloud. With this, Workday aims to deliver full EU data residency for its next-generation Enterprise AI platform. Thus enabling organisations in both the private and public sectors to take advantage of the Workday Illuminate platform. The facility will be operated by EU personnel and will be available to customers in Q2 2026.
During the Innovation Keynote at Workday Rising EMEA, Gerrit Kazmaier, President of Product and Technology, made several iterative announcements about Workday solutions. However, the surprise announcement was the acquisition of AI agent integration platform, Pipedream.
Precisely has released Gio, an AI assistant for its Data Integrity Suite. It will make access to data much easier with a new conversational interface. Users will be able to ask any questions to discover, monitor, cleanse, govern, and enrich data. The company first announced plans for an AI copilot in September, building on its announcements at Trust’25.
At OpenText World in Nashville, the company unveiled its next-generation AI Data Platform. It is positioning it as a bridge between data management and AI. To achieve that, enterprises need to ensure that AI does not leak sensitive data. That requires a secure platform, one that is data-aware and can detect private data. It also needs to be scalable to support current and future AI projects.
Xalient claims that 96% of SASE adopters face barriers to deployment. That’s despite adoption growing from 10%-60% in the last five years and the market projected to be worth over £33bn by 2033. Blockers range from internal politics to funding and resources. Also cited are products failing to deliver, culture, geopolitical factors, and a lack of engagement from the business.
Aryaka has launched version 2.0 of its SASE-as-a-Service solution. The new platform sports a number of new features alongside several updates. It is targeted at any organisations supporting remote work and dealing with AI adoption.
Bluevoyant released its sixth annual State of Supply Chain Defense Report. The 2025 study highlights a shift in focus: instead of instead of concentrating on enforcement and compliance (the primary concern in 2024), organizations are now focused on the lack of integration of supply chain risk into broader enterprise risk frameworks. The survey also highlights ongoing investment in tools, teams and processes, although gaps between program maturity and organisational commitment still remain.
Joel Molinoff, Global Head of Third-Party Risk Management at BlueVoyant, commented, “As the attack surface expands, an effective third-party risk management program is more important than ever,” said “For six years now, the goal of this report has been to raise awareness and understanding on building a successful third-party risk program. While there are bright spots from this year’s survey, there is still more work to be done to ensure we can start closing this gap between program maturity and organizational commitment.”
Datadog, Inc. has announced that Culture Amp, a leading employee experience and performance platform, is using the Datadog platform to strengthen reliability, improve incident response, and accelerate its sustainability initiatives.
The company has also announced the appointment of John Trapani as Field CTO for Financial Services. In this newly created role, Trapani will collaborate across Datadog’s sales, product and marketing teams to advance a unified observability strategy for customers and prospects in the financial services industry.
Kunal Mehta, 45, pleaded guilty in connection with his role in a multi-state conspiracy to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency. Social engineering was used to trick victims into giving access to their accounts.
The stolen cryptocurrency was used to purchase, among other things, nightclub services ranging up to $500,000 per evening, luxury handbags valued in the tens of thousands of dollars that were given away at nightclub parties, luxury watches valued between $100,000 and $500,000, and many other things.
Mehta, aka “Papa,” “The Accountant,” and “Shrek,” pleaded to participating in a RICO conspiracy before U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and admitted that he helped to launder at least $25 million.
Intigriti has published a blog on Black Friday and Cyber Monday price distortion identification. It explains how prices could be manipulated, the challenge of currency confusion and how a layered cybersecurity approach can be used to support process validation.
ManageEngine announced the integration of its unified service management and operations management platforms with DeepSeek. The launch marks a significant step towards providing contextual, intelligent AI capabilities to enhance the IT management experience for enterprises in the region.
Last Monday, the NCSC launched the nationwide Stop! Think Fraud campaign, which provides trusted, practical guidance to help individuals and small businesses protect themselves from cyber criminals at a time when many people will be looking for deals online.
noyb has published a video that details its first legal analysis of the EU Commission’s Digital Omnibus. It highlights a number of changes to the GDPR that it claims will cause significant harm to privacy. Among these are restrictions on the Right To Access and a narrowing of the definition of personal data. It’s a must-watch for anyone in data protection.
Panzura, in conjunction with SC25 (International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis) held this week in St. Louis, has announced that it is a member of the newly launched Single Namespace Working Group (SNS). This is a 34-member cross-industry consortium led by Guardant Health that has drafted a proposed open standard for exabyte-scale data interoperability.
Managing data at scale across different storage providers is often disruptive, time-consuming, and ultimately costly due to progressively larger datasets needing faster solutions. The SNS initiative, which was publicly announced a few days ago, addresses this critical need by accelerating secure data accessibility, migration, and collaboration across platforms.
Quantexa has announced the general availability of Quantexa Unify for Microsoft Fabric. It marks a major milestone in helping enterprises build connected, high-quality data estates to unlock the full potential of analytics and AI. Quantexa Unify for Microsoft Fabric is available now on the Microsoft Marketplace.
Quantexa has been recognised as a Category Leader in Chartis’ RiskTech Quadrant for anti-money laundering (AML) transaction monitoring solutions and RiskTech Quadrant for KYC Solutions, 2025.
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