Exabeam has released a set of new capabilities for what it calls the Agentic SOC, extending AI-driven investigation, execution and governance to both cloud and on-premises deployments. The release also includes a modernized LogRhythm SIEM platform for organizations that keep security data inside their own environment. A SIEM (security information and event management) system collects and analyzes logs from across an organization's network.
The company's argument is that analyst workflows alone can no longer keep up with machine-speed threats. Enterprises are also running more goal-driven AI agents and autonomous workflows, and these need to be monitored as well.
Luxembourg-based Osavul, which describes its business as hybrid risk intelligence, has closed a $10 million (EUR 8.5 million) Series A round. A Series A is usually a startup's first major institutional funding round after its early seed money. 33N Ventures led the investment, and Balnord, G+D Ventures and 42CAP also took part.
The round brings Osavul's total funding to roughly EUR 12 million.
What the platform does
Osavul sells an AI platform that analyzes both open and privileged data. Its goal is to detect hostile intent before an attack actually happens. The platform does this across three domains at once: cyber, physical and information.
Fortinet has disclosed a critical vulnerability in FortiMail, its email security appliance. Attackers are already exploiting it in the wild to run unauthorized code or commands on exposed devices. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-104286, carries a CVSS score of 9.8, and sits in the product's management interface.
Patches are not yet out for most affected branches. For now, many administrators can only rely on workarounds.
How the flaw works
In its advisory, published Thursday, Fortinet describes the bug as a combination of two weaknesses. The first is a path traversal issue (CWE-22). The second is improper handling of NULL bytes or NULL characters (CWE-158). Together, they may let an attacker with no credentials write arbitrary files to the underlying system by sending specially crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests.
Microsoft says cyberattackers are currently getting more out of artificial intelligence than the people defending against them. According to the company, AI helps threat actors find vulnerabilities faster, build malware more quickly and move through compromised networks at a pace security teams struggle to match.
The findings come from Microsoft's 2026 Digital Defense Report, the company's yearly overview of the threat landscape. This year's edition focuses on how AI is reshaping both attack and defense.
Microsoft argues that AI lowers the time, skill and money needed to discover and exploit weaknesses. Attackers and defenders both gain speed, scale and autonomy from the technology. The company expects defenders to catch up eventually, but it says attackers hold the lead for now.
Montenegro has extradited an Iranian national whom US prosecutors accuse of playing a central role in a long-running campaign that stole academic research and intellectual property from universities around the world.
Amir Barati, 40, holds both Iranian and Turkish citizenship. Montenegro's Police Directorate, the country's national police authority, arrested him on June 25 after the FBI issued a warrant. He was detained while on vacation in Kotor, a coastal municipality. A Montenegrin court made the final decision to hand him over to the US this week.
A 14-count indictment against 17 people
In August, the US Justice Department named Barati in a 14-count indictment that charges 17 people. Prosecutors say the operation was run through an Iranian company called the Mabna Institute, acting for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a branch of Iran's armed forces.
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