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Illustrative: Assorted AI apps are seen on the screen of an iPhone (hapabapa; iStock by Getty Images)
October 19, 2026, 12:35 pm
AI agents are only as good as the personal information you share. That raises privacy concerns
Agents promise hands-free convenience, but at a cost, and can sometimes take actions the user never authorized them to take
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS
Varonis Systems, Inc., a provider of software solutions for unstructured, human-generated enterprise data, opens for trading on The NASDAQ Stock Market on February 28, 2014. (Globe Newswire)
October 16, 2026, 8:54 am
Israeli cybersecurity firm Varonis Systems to be bought by Proofpoint in $6.3 billion deal
Deal expected to close in first half of 2027; co-founder and CEO: ‘Our mission is to secure AI and the data that powers it’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Pages from the Anthropic website and the company’s logos are displayed on a computer screen in New York, on February 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)
October 13, 2026, 8:23 pm
AI models may soon be able to self-replicate across smart-home devices, Anthropic warns
Tech firm says malicious AI agent could use computing power of internet-linked home devices to run other AI models, as developers continue to warn about dangers of AI
By Reuters
Illustrative image of cybersecurity threats and data breaches. (iStock via Getty Images)
September 24, 2026, 9:27 pm
US-Israeli browser startup valued at $6.4 billion as AI agents reshape workplace risk
Island is the maker of a web browser tailored for businesses to help secure workflows in digital and hybrid work environments where employees and AI agents interact
By Sharon Wrobel
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio speaks during an interview with AFP in the offices of Law Zero in Montreal, Quebec, on September 15, 2026. (Andrej Ivanov/AFP)
September 17, 2026, 4:17 pm
‘We’re losing control,’ AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio urges public to be aware of risks
Acknowledging that artificial intelligence destroying humanity is an ‘extreme,’ Canadian Jewish prof nevertheless warns that AI agents could threaten democracies, says international community must cooperate
By Fanny Alarcon
File: A PayPal sign is shown in San Jose, California, March 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
September 3, 2026, 8:55 pm
US payments giant PayPal set to slash about a quarter of its employees in Israel
PayPal, which employs some 300 people in the country, is poised to cut around 70 employees at its Tel Aviv-based development center amid global layoffs to reduce costs, invest in AI
By Sharon Wrobel
Itai Gafni (left) and Roy Weisfeld, co-founders of Israeli cybersecurity startup Huskeys in Tel Aviv. (Yair Glazer)
September 2, 2026, 10:33 pm
US giant Blackstone invests in Israeli cyber startup tackling malicious AI web traffic
Tel Aviv-based Huskeys is building technology to manage and secure internet traffic generated by AI agents and other autonomous systems acting online rather than by humans
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative image of cybersecurity threats and data breaches. (iStock via Getty Images)
August 30, 2026, 6:22 pm
Top tech firms call for defensive measures against looming wave of AI-driven hacks
OpenAI, Anthropic among companies to warn of ‘limited window’ to prepare for sophisticated cyberattacks; urge tech leaders, governments to work together on issue
By Agencies
A SpaceX logo is displayed on a building, May 26, 2020, at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
August 28, 2026, 6:44 am
Tel Aviv-based firm helps uncover Russian-speaking hackers’ use of SpaceX’s AI tool
Gambit says the cybercrooks, who it discovered due to a server that was inadvertently shared online, were able to persuade Cursor’s agents that the hacking of at least 7 companies was a simulation
By Raphael Satter
Yashar party chairman Gadi Eisenkot, at a campaign conference of at the Darom HaSharon Regional Council building in central Israel, July 27, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 26, 2026, 11:45 pm
Spyware reportedly found on phones of 2 senior Eisenkot campaign officials
Malware, including wiretapping software, reportedly found during daily cybersecurity check at opposition Yashar party headquarters
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image of cybersecurity threats and data breaches. (iStock via Getty Images)
August 24, 2026, 9:39 pm
Israeli startup led by cybersecurity veterans lays off workforce and shuts down
Backed by Wiz founders and top cybersecurity executives, Minimus is the developer of a platform designed to help businesses keep their software secure from vulnerabilities
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative. BioCatch software in use on a phone. (YouTube screenshot)
August 3, 2026, 10:34 pm
Visa to buy Israeli cyber firm for $2.4 billion to fight AI-driven scams
BioCatch is the developer of a behavioral biometrics platform that analyzes mouse movement, phone tapping or keyboard typing to detect financial fraud before payments are made
By Sharon Wrobel
Team at AI security startup Onyx Security. (Courtesy of Netanel Tobias)
July 30, 2026, 9:02 pm
Israeli cyber startup raises $113m to secure and control autonomous AI agents
Onyx Security is developing technology to govern the use of advanced autonomous systems as companies hand more of their workflows to an army of AI agents
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli startup Oasis Security founders Danny Brickman (right) and Amit Zimerman. (Courtesy of Ohad Kab).
July 28, 2026, 8:18 pm
Cyera to acquire Israeli AI startup Oasis Security in $1 billion deal
Company develops technology for managing non-human identities, such as AI agents, to help businesses control the risks of adopting autonomous tools into work processes
By Sharon Wrobel
The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cellphone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model, December 8, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
July 22, 2026, 6:08 pm
OpenAI models go rogue during testing, triggering ‘unprecedented’ cyber breach
New York-based AI startup Hugging Face says it used an open-sourced Chinese model to contain the hack, which compromised its infrastructure
By Raphael Satter
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