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Daily briefing for 09.30.26. By the N2K CyberWire staff Top stories. * FBI tells ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in. * AI companies sign a voluntary accord aimed at addressing safety concerns. * Business news: Island raises $400 million in Series F funding. FBI tells ShinyHunters members to turn themselves in. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is calling on members of the ShinyHunters extortion group to come forward willingly after one of their alleged colleagues was arrested in Amsterdam this month. FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Brett Leatherman stated, "Arrests have a way of changing who is willing to talk, and seized infrastructure has a way of showing us who's left." ShinyHunters earlier this month claimed responsibility for hacking the FBI and stealing sensitive data on almost all of its employees. The data included extensive personal information and details on secretive job assignments, potentially placing FBI employees in danger. The New York Times says some observers are comparing the incident to China's hack of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in 2015. ShinyHunters issued a fresh statement this week stressing that it will not publish the stolen data online, as the breach was simply payback for the FBI's assertion that the hacking group's claims are often exaggerated. SecurityWeek notes, however, that the group could monetize the data privately by selling it to foreign intelligence agencies. If identity fails, can your organization recover? Organizations have spent years strengthening their perimeter. But when attackers compromise the identity systems everything else depends on, keeping them out is no longer enough. Jimmy McNary, Deputy Federal CTO at Semperis, joins Dave Bittner to explain why identity resilience requires organizations to continuously monitor, protect, and prepare to recover their environments. Listen to learn how to identify gaps in your identity resilience strategy before an attacker exposes them. AI companies sign a voluntary accord aimed at addressing safety concerns. President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson met with a large group of AI company leaders yesterday to sign a voluntary AI safety accord, NPR reports. The accord was signed by President Trump, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and xAI founder Elon Musk. The companies agreed to implement "robust internal controls" that would be evaluated by an "independent external auditor," and establish a committee within each company's board of directors to assess safety reports from internal and external auditors. Some experts believe the accord is a step in the right direction toward balancing safety and innovation, while others believe voluntary oversight will prove insufficient. Business news: Island raises $400 million in Series F funding. Dallas-based enterprise cybersecurity company Island has raised $400 million in a Series F round led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from existing investors Prysm Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Alta Park Capital, Georgian, G Squared, and Squarepoint, alongside another personal investment from Dmitri Alperovitch. The funding brings the company's valuation to $6.4 billion. Island says the funding "will fuel the company's next phase of growth and innovation as enterprises scale AI agents and modernize how work gets done." Sponsored Events Anthropic's Approach to Stopping GenAI attacks (Virtual, Sep 30, 2026) Join Kyla Guru from Anthropic's Safeguards team and Roi Vanunu from Jazz to uncover the GenAI attack scenarios security teams are least likely to detect. And, learn how to put the right guardrails around data movement without blocking AI adoption in your organization. Uniting Women in Cyber 2026 (Capital One Hall, Tysons, VA, Oct 8, 2026) Join cybersecurity leaders, practitioners, learners, and allies at UWIC 2026 for a day of learning, connection, and conversation. Together, we'll explore how human ingenuity and emerging technology can strengthen cybersecurity, drive innovation, and build a resilient future. Mobile Spyware & AI Briefing & Breakfast (Washington, DC, Oct 14, 2026) Join Zimperium & N2K CyberWire on Oct 14, 2026, at the International Spy Museum in DC for an interactive breakfast briefing. Federal cybersecurity leaders and experts will discuss AI-driven mobile spyware threats and defense strategies for Mobile Zero Trust. Selected Reading Attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities. WaterISAC reckons with range of threats after summer of cyberattacks (CyberScoop) Tom Dobbins, executive director of the Water Information Sharing Analysis Center or WaterISAC, told CyberScoop, the sector's biggest ongoing weaknesses include exposed OT, vulnerable PLCs, insecure connections through integrators and poor cyber hygiene at smaller utilities, which have pushed the center to make threat sharing faster across the sector. From EDU Account Takeover to Job Scam Abuse: West African Fraud Actors Target Universities (Proofpoint) Key Takeaways Threat actors are using compromised university email accounts to distribute job-based advanced fee fraud. College students are uniquely vulnerable due to financial pressure Attackers Combine ChatGPT Feature Abuse With ClickFix to Deliver RAT (Infosecurity Magazine) Cybersecurity researchers at Huntress identify campaign to deliver potent trojan which targets users searching for ChatGPT via Google Litigation, Investigation, and law enforcement. US Air Force members given over 6 years in prison for cyber theft of more than $2 million (The Record) According to court documents, both men pleaded guilty to wire fraud, identity theft and access device fraud charges in June. OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack (WIRED) A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not - attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents. Industry Events For a complete running list of events, please visit the Event Tracker. Events. 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Top early-stage robotics raises (2026). Explore how startups like Walden Robotics and Enigma are reshaping the landscape with massive seed capital in its deep dive into the last six months of VC. Published August 11, 2026 by Jacob Klionsky * 01 Walden Robotics Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Massachusetts $300MSeed Walden Robotics, a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots, raised $300 million in a seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital with participation from NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prologis Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, Colle Capital, Shine Capital, NextView Ventures, Squarepoint Capital, One Madison Group, KAS Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and others. * 02 Enigma Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - California $71MSeed Enigma, a physical AI robotics startup, raised $71 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Conviction Partners and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI, Cognition and Wiz. * 03 MicroAGI Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Bayern $55MSeed MicroAGI, a Munich robotics startup, raised $55 million in a seed round led by Hummingbird Ventures with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global, and redalpine. * 04 Sky Spy Government and Military - Hardware - Delaware $50MSeed UForce, a defense-tech startup, raised a $50 million seed round led by Shield Capital and Lakestar, with participation from Ballistic Venture. * 05 RLWRLD Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Seoul-t'ukpyolsi $27.3MSeed Physical-AI startup RLWRLD raised a ₩39 billion (≈US$26 million) Seed 2 round from Headline Asia, Z Venture, CJ Logistics Corporation, Kakao Investment, LOTTE Ventures, Hanwha Asset Management and the Mirae Asset·emart New Growth Investment Fund. * 06 Config Data and Analytics - Hardware - California $27MSeed Config, a Seoul- and San Jose-based startup building the data layer for robotic foundation models, raised a $27 million seed round at a valuation of more than $200 million led by Samsung Venture Investment with participation from ZER01NE Ventures (Hyundai), LG Tech Ventures, SKT America, angel Pieter Abbeel, Mirae Asset Ventures, Korea Development Bank, GS Futures, Kakao Ventures, and Z Ventures. * 07 All3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - England $25MSeed All3, a construction robotics and AI startup, raised $25M in a seed round led by RTP Global with participation from SuperSeed, Begin Capital, s16vc and VNV Global. * 08 ATOM Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Hardware - Tokyo $18.8MSeed アトム, a humanoid AI robot developer, raised ¥3.0 billion in a seed round co-led by ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures and the JAFCO Group, with participation from ALPHA, JICベンチャー・グロース・インベストメンツ, 住商ベンチャー・パートナーズ, Blue Lab, 三菱UFJキャピタル and SMBCベンチャーキャピタル. * 09 Six Robotics Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Oslo $13.7MSeed Six Robotics, an Oslo-based defence-software drone swarm startup, raised €12M in its first institutional equity round led by DTCP Defence with participation from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO), Scale Capital, and other private investors. * 10 Cytronic Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - California $13.5MSeed Cytronic, an automated e-commerce fulfillment startup, raised $13.5 million in a seed round led by Slow Ventures with participation from Geek Ventures, Failup Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Spacecadet, Weekend Fund, Mana Ventures, Rice Capital, Script Capital and individual investors including Adam Nash and Gokul Rajaram * 11 Acumino Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Massachusetts $11.7MSeed Acumino, Greece's leading robotics startup, raised $11.7 million in a seed round and joined Google DeepMind's European Robotics Accelerator * 12 Proception Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - California $11MSeed Proception, a robotics company developing high-dexterity robotic hands and sensor gloves, raised an $11 million seed round led by First Round Capital with participation from Y Combinator and BoxGroup. * 13 Shifters Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - District of Columbia $10.2MSeed Shifters, an AI-native autonomous robotics company, raised $10.2M in a Seed round led by Ace Capital Partners with participation from Aurelius Capital Management, Corner Ventures, Arkin Capital, STEP World and Fresh Fund. * 14 Aseon Labs Energy - Hardware - Delaware $10MSeed Aseon Labs, a robotics startup building pod-based infrastructure for robotaxis, raised $10 million in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Expa, Robin Hood Ventures, and Founders Capital. * 15 Rekise Marine Hardware - Science and Engineering - Telangana $9.7MSeed Rekise Marine, a marine robotics startup, raised $9.7 million in a seed round co-led by Accel and NKSquared with participation from Sameer Brij Verma, Sandeep Singhal, Industrial47, Singularity AMC, the company's founders and several family offices. * 16 Worldmodeldata Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Cambridgeshire $9.3MSeed Worldmodeldata, a startup providing licensed video game training data for AI world models, raised £7M in a seed round led by Iona Star Capital * 17 Antioch Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Hardware - New York $8.5MSeed Antioch, a simulation startup for robot developers, raised an $8.5 million seed round at a $60 million valuation led by A* and Category Ventures, with participation from MaC Venture Capital, Abstract, Box Group, and Icehouse Ventures. * 18 Amity Robotics Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Krung Thep $7MSeed Amity Robotics, a physical AI kiosks and robotics developer, raised $7 million in a seed round led by East Ventures with participation from 500 Global and debt financing from AlteriQ Global * 19 Avatar Robotics Education - Hardware - California $6.5MSeed Avatar Robotics, an industrial workforce robotics startup, raised $6.5 million Seed led by AlleyCorp alongside a pre-seed led by defy.vc with participation from Headline, Henry Ford III, Refashiond, Paul Vogel, Jack Huffard, and Samuel Udotong. * 20 Breaker Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Texas $6MSeed Breaker, a defense autonomy orchestration software startup, raised a $6 million seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Main Sequence. * 21 Anvil Robotics Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - California $5.5MSeed Anvil Robotics, a 'Legos for robots' hardware, software and manufacturing platform, raised $5.5 million in a seed round led by Matter Venture Partners with participation from Humba Ventures, DNX Ventures, Vivek Sodera, Spacecadet Ventures and Position Ventures. * 22 Foundry Robotics Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - California $5.5MSeed Foundry Robotics, an AI-first manufacturing and robotics startup, has closed over $19M in total funding from Khosla Ventures, Red Glass Ventures, Zero Shot Fund, Hanabi Capital, Ora Global, and other investors. * 23 Bubble Robotics Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Delaware $5MPre-Seed Bubble Robotics, an autonomous ocean robotics startup, raised $5M in a pre-seed round led by Episode1 Ventures, Asterion Ventures, and Norrsken Evolve * 24 Exclaim Robotics Hardware - Science and Engineering - Zurich $5MPre-Seed Exclaim Robotics, a data centre maintenance robotics startup, raised $4.95M in a pre-seed round co-led by Playfair Capital and Founderful with participation from Kindred Capital, HCVC, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, ACE & Company, Amino Collective and several angel investors * 25 Surtr Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Consumer Electronics - California $4.8MSeed Surtr, a c-UAS integration startup, raised a $4.8M seed round led by Allegis Capital, Eniac Ventures, Gaingels, Robinhood Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, and various angels * 26 Stateful Robotics Hardware - Science and Engineering - Oxfordshire $4.8MPre-Seed Stateful Robotics, an embodied AI company, raised $4.8M in a pre-seed round led by Amadeus Capital Partners and Oxford Science Enterprises with participation from angel investor Stan Boland. * 27 Sitegeist Hardware - Other - Bayern $4.8MPre-Seed Sitegeist, a construction-robotics startup, raised a €4 million pre-seed round co-led by b2venture and OpenOcean with participation from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators and several angel investors. * 28 Nature Robots Agriculture and Farming - Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Niedersachsen $4.6MSeed Nature Robots, an Osnabrück-based AgTech startup developing modular autonomy software for agricultural machinery, raised €4 million in a Seed round backed by Climentum Capital, Bayern Kapital, and Planetary Impact Ventures. * 29 VLM Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - California $4.3MSeed VLM, a company developing VLM technology, raised a 40M SEK seed round at a 240M SEK valuation. * 30 Mirai Robotics Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Data and Analytics - Puglia $4.2MPre-Seed Autonomous maritime robotics startup Mirai Robotics raised a $4.2 million pre-seed round led by Primo Ventures, Techshop and 40Jemz Ventures.