Wiz

New Capabilities

Early user of Argon through its Scan for Good initiative

Google released Gemini 4 Carbon publicly on November 10, making its strongest model available to paid developers, businesses and Google AI Ultra subscribers. Carbon is built for long, multi-step work such as complex coding, scientific research and finding software vulnerabilities.

Updated 2 hours ago

Force in Play

Traced the stolen AWS credentials to Bedrock probing and counted about 49,000 downloads of the poisoned release

LiteLLM published a malicious version 1.107.0 on October 21 and pulled it about two hours later. It carried a credential stealer that ran whenever Python started, even in programs that never imported the library, plus a backdoor that checked a GitHub repository for instructions.

Updated Oct 30

Money Moves

As of May 2026: Acquired by Google, operating within Google Cloud under its own brand

Wiz was founded in January 2020 by four veterans of Israel's military intelligence Unit 8200. Six years later, Google paid $32 billion in cash — the largest deal in Google's history, the largest cybersecurity acquisition ever, and more than the combined cost of its eight next-biggest purchases.

Updated May 30

Money Moves

As of May 2026: Acquired by Google for $32 billion in March 2025

ServiceNow just agreed to pay $7.75 billion in cash for Armis, a cybersecurity startup that tracks vulnerabilities across hospital medical devices, factory equipment, and corporate networks. It's ServiceNow's largest acquisition ever—and its third billion-dollar security buy in 2025 alone. CEO Bill McDermott calls it building an "AI control tower" for cybersecurity, while Wall Street calls it a land grab.

Updated May 16