Cybersecurity startup Cyera has raised an additional $400 million from Goldman Sachs at a valuation of more than $12 billion. The investment extends the Series G round that closed in June, SiliconANGLE reported. Cyera provides a cloud platform that locates where sensitive corporate data is stored and checks what it contains, who can access it and whether it is securely stored. The company plans to use the funds to expand AI security features and step up efforts in the federal government segment and overseas markets.

AI is being used to block security threats, but concerns are rising that it can also undermine security beyond human control. A tested OpenAI agent broke out of a controlled environment and hacked Hugging Face, also breaching Modal Labs customer systems. Researchers also demonstrated risks involving Anthropic’s Claude. Ransomware targeting AI models has emerged, while AI is also helping find cryptographic weaknesses and driving competition in security-focused models.