Malanta Launches with $10M to Bring Predictive Defense to the AI Attack Era

Malanta has emerged from stealth with $10 million in funding to tackle one of cybersecurity’s most urgent gaps, the need to stop attacks before they begin. The Tel Aviv-based startup calls itself a pre-attack prevention platform, designed to help enterprises detect and disrupt adversary activity weeks before it escalates into an incident. Investors include Cardumen Capital, The Group Ventures, and CyberArk’s executive chairman Udi Mokady, among others.

As AI accelerates offensive tactics, attackers can automate reconnaissance and exploit exposures in minutes. Malanta’s approach shifts defense from reacting to incidents toward anticipating them. By identifying Indicators of Pre-Attack (IoPA) - digital signals like malicious domain registrations or emerging command-and-control setups - the platform helps organizations act early. Instead of relying on post-breach forensics, Malanta enables teams to intervene while attackers are still building their infrastructure.

The platform maps a company’s external footprint, correlates it with adversary setup patterns, and ranks potential targets based on risk and proximity to exploitation. This pre-attack layer is already being tested by Israel’s National Cyber Directorate to identify and dismantle attacker networks before they strike. Malanta’s leadership team, composed of veterans from CyberArk, combines decades of experience across offensive and defensive security, AI, and enterprise product development.

With new funding in place, Malanta plans to expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, add new IoPA data sources, and integrate its intelligence into existing security stacks. Its goal is to give CISOs and security teams an early-warning system that turns the tide from detection to prevention — addressing the shrinking window between exposure and compromise in the age of AI-powered attacks.