
Datadog says high and critical cloud flaws quadrupled since May
Among monitored workloads, the median count rose from four in May to 16 in November, Datadog claims.
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Among monitored workloads, the median count rose from four in May to 16 in November, Datadog claims.

Splunk leads for analytics depth while Elastic offers open resource-based pricing in 2026 log management tools.

Nine months after a $250 million round, the startup is valued at $3.8 billion with about $90 million forecast ARR.

The round comes nine months after a $250 million raise and follows disputed reports that Datadog offered nearly $4 billion to acquire the startup.

A 2026 buyer's guide compares ten RASP and runtime-protection products, led by Contrast and Waratek.

Datadog tests whether prompt injection can steer TypeSafe’s Jev and bypass LangChain tool-risk gating.

A 2026 comparison ranks nine IAST tools, led by Contrast Security, Seeker, Dynatrace, and Datadog.

Datadog found harvesters testing stolen AWS keys specifically for Amazon Bedrock access.

Datadog found over 3,500 dangerous RBAC grants to Kubernetes built-in principals across 65,000 clusters.

OpenCode versions 1.14.30 through 1.18.21 let a malicious site run code on a developer's machine via the local upgrade API.

Datadog demonstrates remote code execution in OpenCode AI coding agent via content-type confusion in the /global/upgrade endpoint, fixed in 1.18.22.

A buyer-focused comparison of twelve serverless security offerings concludes no standalone SKU is worth buying in 2026, with function protection bundled inside CNAPP contracts.

Datadog Security Labs publishes a threat-hunting guide with audit-log queries to detect GitHub token theft, device code phishing, and source code exfiltration.
Datadog researchers detonated a new N4D Mesh Controller sample in microVMs, revealing rotated infrastructure, a UPX-packed go-titan agent, and persistence behavior.
Datadog Security Labs tested Sonnet 5, Composer 2.5, and GPT 5.5 to see if plan mode yields more secure code than default mode.
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