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AI-native OT security startup Frenos today announced raising $1.52 million in a seed funding round extension that brings the total raised by the company to $6.4 million. The new investment round was led by Momenta and Exposition Ventures, with additional support from Riptide Ventures. Frenos will use the new funding to expand its customer success team and to grow its AI R&D.

Cybersecurity startup Hush Security today announced raising $30 million in a Series A funding round that brings the total raised by the company to $41 million. The fresh investment came from Akamai Technologies and previous backers Battery Ventures and YL Ventures. Founded in 2024, Tel Aviv-based Hush Security emerged from stealth in September 2025 with a machine access platform that enables organizations to securely control enterprise AI agents and their underlying infrastructure.

Google has announced that Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is adopting a new cryptonym-based naming convention for tracking threat actors. According to the internet giant, the schema moves away from sequential numbers and disparate identifiers, relying instead on two-word combinations for each activity cluster. The first word, Google explains, is a unique and memorable term that may have been used in public reporting and which is meant to represent the threat actor.