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Proofpoint has announced an agreement to acquire Varonis in a deal valued at $6.3 billion, according to the headline of the company's newsroom item. This is a corporate consolidation event in the cybersecurity industry, not a security incident or threat. The available article text gives no deal terms, closing timeline, regulatory conditio…
Proofpoint CEO Sumit Dhawan appeared on CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the $6.3 billion acquisition of Varonis, which the article describes as an AI cybersecurity firm. The interview also covered AI safety issues. The article is a short interview teaser and gives no deal terms beyond the price, no closing timeline and no technic…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a privilege-escalation chain in Snowflake Postgres that turned a limited, non-superuser role (snowflakeadmin, holding CREATEROLE) into operating-system command execution as the postgres account. The chain abused built-in PostgreSQL behaviors, even though Snowflake had blocked the usual SQL-to-OS routes. Varon…
Proofpoint CEO Sumit Dhawan told CRN in an interview that the planned $6.3 billion acquisition of publicly traded data security vendor Varonis, announced the previous day, is meant to combine complementary technologies to protect data accessed by AI agents. The deal is pitched as giving channel partners a broader data security platform an…
Proofpoint, a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, announced on October 15, 2026 a definitive agreement to acquire Varonis Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNS) in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $6.3 billion, or $49.75 per share. The price is a 52% premium to Varonis' June 22, 2026 close and a 17% premium to its September 1, 2026 close.…
