
Cathedral reached the Claude maker's HR, sales and IT systems through third-party software, as part of a bug bounty program. According to Anthropic, user conversations, source code and model weights were not exposed.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

The valuation of the cloud security company founded by Israeli entrepreneur Amiram Shachar more than doubled in nine months. The round comes days after the disputed report of a Datadog takeover offer.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

Anthropic's security team revealed five attack chains built by an unreleased internal research model, including one-click remote code execution in Chrome. All the flaws were reported to vendors in advance and, according to reports, fixed.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

Meta promised to verify everyone who runs investment ads in Israel. The scams keep running. Here is how to spot them, and why one-time verification is simply not enough
Moshe Levi, co-founder and CTO of LevinityCyber / 3 min read

A data leak affecting about 38,000 Daishin customers, a breach of an internal system at crypto exchange Bithumb, and a regulator sending in inspectors. The top supervisor warns that with AI, attacks on several institutions at once could become the norm.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

The Tel Aviv company, founded by Unit 8200 veterans, develops AI agents that investigate security alerts and filter out false positives. A $28 million Series A was led by Red Dot.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

According to The Information, Datadog offered nearly $4 billion for the cloud security company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs, which preferred to raise capital instead. Calcalist reports the offer was never made.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

CISA added the two critical PHP vulnerabilities to its list of actively exploited flaws and ordered federal agencies to patch by October 29. Those who cannot update are told to take their servers offline.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

According to a Check Point report, attacks on Israeli government bodies jumped 82% during the election period. The National Cyber Directorate and the Central Elections Committee launched an operation to protect the vote. Here is how to spot a fake message.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

An Israeli security researcher bought a domain the telecom company had let go, and began receiving customers' picture messages. According to TheMarker, his reports to the company and to the National Cyber Directorate went unanswered, and the gap was closed only after the newspaper got in touch.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

Many organizations do not know which PHP versions their servers run. A non-intrusive check that compares the version a server reports with the patched versions can give an initial picture. Moshe Levi of Levinity Cyber explains what it reveals, and what it does not.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

PHP2Shell proved that AI models are already excellent vulnerability hunters. The real security problem of 2026 is not finding flaws, but patching faster than the attackers.
Ori Gal, Columnist / 4 min read

Two severe PHP vulnerabilities allow remote code execution without authentication. Patches are out, exploitation attempts are already here, and there is no safe workaround.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read