{"id":5651,"date":"2025-10-06T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:37:23","slug":"news20251006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2025\/10\/06\/news20251006\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#8211; October 6, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"326\" data-attachment-id=\"5657\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/2025\/10\/06\/news20251006\/news20251006-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?fit=1100%2C350&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1100,350\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"news20251006\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?fit=300%2C95&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?fit=1024%2C326&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?resize=1024%2C326&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?resize=1024%2C326&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?resize=300%2C95&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?resize=768%2C244&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?w=1100&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>News for today:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Willo raises $4 million; focus on increasing trust<\/strong>. Willo uses video to connect job candidates with employers. They have just taken $4 million in funding to support faster product velocity, better customer support and onboarding, and richer workflows. Willo has also just released a new trust-infused candidate profile offering, aimed at addressing growing AI-enabled video fraud and hiring fraud. The new service uses a combination of aggregation techniques and global data checks. <em>Think of it as a\u00a0\u201cblue tick\u201d for credentials\u00a0a simple signal that helps great candidates stand out and helps your team move with confidence.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willo.video\/blog\/willo-raises-4m-investment-to-help-you-hire-faster-fairer-and-smarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Willo<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Veeam to buy Securiti?<\/strong> Veeam Software is apparently in advanced talks re purchasing Securiti, for about $1.8 billion. Securiti is focused on assessing data security posture plus AI security. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-06\/insight-owned-veeam-nears-1-8-billion-deal-to-buy-securiti?srnd=homepage-asia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anthropic on defensive AI<\/strong>. Anthropic asserts that cyber defenders need to adopt and experiment with AI for detecting, analysing, and remediating vulnerabilities in code and deployed systems &#8230; and says the new Sonnet 4.5 model is good at doing so. <em>We have found and disrupted threat actors on our own platform who leveraged AI to scale their operations. Our\u00a0Safeguards\u00a0team recently discovered (and disrupted) a case of \u201cvibe hacking,\u201d in which a cybercriminal used Claude to build a large-scale data extortion scheme that previously would have required an entire team of people. Safeguards has also detected and countered Claude&#8217;s use in increasingly\u00a0complex espionage operations, including the targeting of critical telecommunications infrastructure, by an actor that demonstrated characteristics consistent with Chinese APT operations<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/research\/building-ai-cyber-defenders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Anthropic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News for today: $4 million for Willo, $1.8 billion for Securiti (perhaps?), and Anthropic on defensive AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384585,"featured_media":5657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[712027501],"tags":[712027517],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-roundup","tag-news-roundup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/news20251006.jpg?fit=1100%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcHAk4-1t9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5659,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions\/5659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ostermanresearch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}