Security and AI news from the two weeks beginning 2nd February 2026
Ivanti has been blamed for a breach at the Dutch Data Protection Authority and the Council of Justice. Attackers exploited CVE-2026-1281 in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile and stole employee data.
The European Commission also reported a breach of its mobile management systems, saying that some employee data may have been compromised. However, it said that the breach was contained and eliminated within 9 hours, showing that proper security controls can work. It hasn’t said how the attack took place or if this was related to the Ivanti exploit.
Anywhere Real Estate reported that its Oracle E-Business Suite was breached. More than 100 organisations have seen their EBS systems breached with ransomware group Cl0p. In this case, 17,429 individuals have had their names, addresses, contact information, date of birth, social security numbers and job details taken.
In AI news, some of the top stories include Palladyne Corp signing a deal with a top US defence contractor. Its solution will be used to create and deliver an AI-driven propulsion subsystem for a US missile program. It also announced that its AI SwarmOS has been integrated into its BRAIN X2 Flight Computer to advance drone swarm controls.
xAI has been merged into SpaceX with the deal valued at between $1.125 trillion and $1.25 trillion. The Grok AI models are to be embedded into the SpaceX operations and are expected to be part of Elon Musk’s personal ambition to colonise Mars.
Mozilla has upped the stakes for data used in AI training. It launched a one-click privacy tool in Firefox that it says will allow users to opt out of and delete their data from AI training datasets. The tool sends a digital request to AI developers to purge personal browsing history and data. How effective it will be remains to be seen.
Zero Networks is warning that organisations need to focus more on the daily mundane rather than exotic malware or zero-day malware. This is due to attackers abusing the same trusted internal pathways that businesses rely on. It means there is no obvious trigger to warn off an attack or something going wrong. For defenders, it makes it much harder to differentiate between good and bad traffic.
Reach Security has published its successes in 2025, calling it a breakout year that gives it significant momentum for 2026. Among the highlights from 2025, it saw a 500% increase in revenue and a 300% growth in customer numbers.
At SuiteConnect New York, NetSuite announced AI-powered updates that will help businesses using its platform. In New York, Evan Goldberg unveiled innovations across the suite to assist organisations with automation, insights and coding. Several were AI-powered, while others enhanced the core applications in traditional ways. Most of these innovations are generally available worldwide.
Azul has released its State of Java 2026 report (registration required), and it delivers mixed news on the future of Java. Oracle’s pricing policy continues to drive a move to OpenJDK, the rise of AI to code Java, and a move away from public cloud to reduce costs are some of the big issues. But it is the nuance around these that tells a wider story.
FourKites has launched Loft. Loft is an AI-native platform that orchestrates Digital Workers (AI Agents) across Enterprise systems. At the core of the new platform is a new Agentic AI agent, Sophie. Rather than being a digital worker that fits within the business, Sophie is an AI developer agent that will help FourKites customers transform operational processes. Users can describe business processes in natural language.
Precisely has announced its latest dataset, StreetPro Discover. It takes complex street attributes that are normally non-text data and turns them into human-readable text. This will allow systems such as LLMs and AI-driven analytics to understand the data and make use of it. It can also help drive new user interfaces to expose that data to humans and other systems that use Location Intelligence.
In a podcast, Kiran Kembhavi, SVP, Cloud, Data & AI Practice and Nisha Advani, AVP, Customer & Partner Success, of Cybage Software, talk about what happens to software pricing when your “user” is no longer a person, but a digital worker?
One Identity has announced the appointment of Gihan Munasinghe as its new Chief Technology Officer. Munasinghe brings over 15 years of experience in leading global software engineering organisations and delivering large-scale, customer-centric software platforms.
Datadog has launched Feature Flags, a unified platform for managing feature rollouts at speed and scale. It is aimed at engineering teams that are struggling to meet demands for new functionality without risking reliability. Teams will be able to see the immediate impact of any new feature on system health, latency, error rates and user behaviour. It also integrates with other Datadog solutions, such as APM and RUM.
In an interview, Joe Kim, President and CEO of Druid AI, talks about how we need to do better with securing Agentic AI. Security and control are lacking in many installations, which is causing increasing concern. Kim believes that we have tools that will enable us to do better, but we need to learn from history.
Dragos expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to help organisations improve their OT security. By deploying the Dragos Platform on Microsoft Azure, integrating with Microsoft Sentinel, and enabling streamlined procurement through Microsoft Marketplace, organizations can more tightly align IT and OT security operations while adopting robust protections purpose-built for operational environments.
The European Network for Cyber Security (ENCS) and the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation on vulnerability discovery, disclosure and resolution affecting Europe’s power grids and other critical infrastructure.
A new eSentire blog looks at how the company has been working with technical institutions to develop a pipeline of new talent. It marks the twelfth year that the company has been involved in working to help people get into cybersecurity.
The FBI IC3 has published a fact sheet from CISA, the FBI and the UK NCSC, urging organisations to be aware of the malicious activity of nation-state threat actors. The document looks at the risk of end-of-support edge devices, including VPNs, firewalls, routers and other technology.
Intigrit published a blog revealing insights from the growth of bug bounty programmes across the US. The US has been the biggest adopter of such programmes in order to improve cybersecurity and uncover vulnerabilities.
Things are hotting up around the changes to GDPR and ePrivacy in the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus. noyb reports that the European Digital Protection Board and the European Digital Protection Supervisor have published a joint opinion expressing serious concerns. The biggest issues are the narrowing of the definition of personal data, the proposed legal basis for its use in AI training and restrictions on the right of access.
Qualys has announced its fourth quarter and full-year 2025 financial results. Q4 revenue was up 10%, as was the full-year revenue growth. The company has also announced a $200 million share buyback programme.
Quantexa has signed an agreement with Great Portland Estates plc (GPE) for premium office space at The Delft, a newly developed building located on London’s South Bank. The site will serve as Quantexa’s new global headquarters upon completion in 2027, marking a major long-term investment in the UK and a pivotal milestone in the company’s global growth strategy.
ThreatHunter.ai, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business providing 24/7 threat hunting services since 2007, today announced that its MILBERT.ai real-time authentication monitoring platform is now available free for 90 days with no commitment required to qualified firms.
The United States has filed a complaint under section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950. It aims to enforce a presidential order prohibiting Suirui Group’s acquisition, through Suirui International, of California-based Jupiter Systems and compelling Suirui to divest from Jupiter Systems.
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