News for today:
- Varonis Interceptor released. A month after purchasing SlashNext, Varonis released Interceptor, a multi-layered AI to detect and block social engineering attacks in email, even when they originate from trusted sources. Varonis asserts that threat actors are hacking trust, not computers. Varonis Interceptor stops breaches at the earliest point of attack — the inbox. Customers trust Varonis to defend their sensitive data, and now they can turn to us to defend against the new wave of AI-powered social engineering attacks. Available immediately. Varonis
- Real-time threat detection coming to Webex meetings. Cisco announced plans to introduce threat detection in Cisco Webex in 2026, via a partnership with GetReal and Pindrop. This will enable the real-time identification of deepfakes and synthetic media in online meetings. Cisco
- Malicious use of OpenAI’s models. OpenAI published its October 2025 report on its detection and disruption of malicious use of its generative AI models over the past three months. OpenAI says that threat actors [are bolting] AI onto old playbooks to move faster, not [gaining] novel offensive capability from [their] models. OpenAI
- Barracuda Research for threat intelligence and insights. Barracuda unveiled a new research resource for threat intelligence, incident analysis, and email threat detection data. Barracuda Research draws on detection data from Barracuda AI to highlight the prevalence of malicious email threat types. It also features summaries of Barracuda’s latest threat analysis reports. These cover notable email attack tactics seen in the wild by Barracuda threat analysts, the latest threats targeting organizations seen by Barracuda’s Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts, step-by-step analysis of recent real-world incidents mitigated by Barracuda Managed XDR, and more. Barracuda