After a cluster of security incidents within 48 hours — including the reported hack of root certificate authority eMudhra, the compromise of the open-source AI routing tool LiteLLM, and a newly found vulnerability in PHP — Atomicwork CEO Vijay Rayapati gathered roughly 30 software engineers and told them to drop other work and prioritize cybersecurity, according to The Information. The startup verified it was not directly affected by the threats, and Rayapati said the scramble "shows nobody's ready." He plans to hire one cybersecurity engineer for every three technical hires and projects the security-focused engineering headcount to roughly triple to 27 over the coming year.