Cyera secures $600M to expand AI security trust platform

The five-year-old company is now valued at $12 billion.

Data security startup Cyera is finalising a funding round of at least $300 million led by Evolution Equity Partners at a $12 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the deal — just five months after raising a $400 million Series F at a $9 billion valuation led by Blackstone. The new round would bring Cyera’s total […]

A widely used JavaScript implementation of Google’s Protocol Buffers format is placing too much trust in untrusted data, exposing affected applications to remote code execution and other attacks. Researchers at Cyera have disclosed six vulnerabilities affecting “protobuf.js,” all stemming from the library’s handling of schema and metadata. Attackers could exploit an input validation oversight to insert malicious data and influence an application’s behavior. Protocol Buffers is a technology for packaging data in a compact, structured format to streamline the exchange of information between different applications. The protobuf.js library reportedly receives more than 50 million weekly downloads. It is commonly pulled into applications indirectly through dependencies such as gRPC tooling, Google Cloud libraries, and other frameworks, making it difficult for organizations to track. Researchers disclosed six CVEs covering remote code execution, denial-of-service (DoS) conditions, prototype

The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners.