Introducing Mikyal Malware Lab

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Jun 3, 2026

The round brings Lateral's total funding to $58 million.

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Mikyal Malware Lab is our platform for analyzing suspicious files, understanding what they do, and turning that analysis into intelligence and detections.

Malware analysis is one of those areas of cybersecurity where the amount of information is rarely the problem.

The problem is getting from a suspicious file to a confident answer.

A security team receives a sample. They need to understand what it is, what it does, how it communicates, whether they have seen it before, what infrastructure it is connected to, and what they should do about it.

That can mean moving between sandboxes, reverse-engineering tools, threat-intelligence platforms, internal documentation, SIEMs, and detection tooling.

Mikyal Malware Lab brings that workflow together.


From a suspicious file to a complete investigation

The starting point is simple.

A security analyst submits a suspicious file to Mikyal Malware Lab.

The sample is analyzed inside an isolated environment. Mikyal collects evidence from both the file itself and its behavior when executed.

From there, the platform builds an investigation around the sample.

The output isn't simply a classification such as malicious or benign.

The goal is to understand:

  • What is this file?

  • What does it do?

  • How does it execute?

  • What changes does it make?

  • What does it communicate with?

  • What techniques does it use?

  • Have we seen something similar before?

  • What infrastructure is associated with it?

  • What should the security team detect?

That distinction is important.

Mikyal Malware Lab is built around the investigation, not just the scan.


Two engines working together

Mikyal Malware Lab is built around two core engines.

The first is our malware analysis and reasoning engine.

The second is our malware reversing and analysis environment.

They serve different purposes.

The analysis environment produces the technical evidence.

Our model works over that evidence to interpret it, correlate it, and turn it into something useful for the analyst.

This separation matters.

We don't want an AI model simply looking at a file and guessing what it does.

We want the system to first observe the malware, collect evidence, and then reason over that evidence.

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Tell us about your security environment and how your team handles malware today. We'll show you how Mikyal Malware Lab would fit into it.

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Get Started

Build your AI Malware Lab

Tell us about your security environment and how your team handles malware today. We'll show you how Mikyal Malware Lab would fit into it.

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Get Started

Build your AI Malware Lab

Tell us about your security environment and how your team handles malware today. We'll show you how Mikyal Malware Lab would fit into it.

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