HUB Cyber Security Announces Deepening of Engagement With Leading European Financial Institution
Rhea-AI Summary
HUB Cyber Security (Nasdaq: HUBC) said on December 11, 2025 it expanded a multi-year engagement with a major European financial institution by adding cybersecurity assessment and consultancy services.
Under the expanded scope HUB will provide application security testing, including mobile-application penetration testing and code-review services, to support the client's digital risk and compliance initiatives. The company said the move aligns with its broader go-to-market push in Europe for security, compliance and secured data fabric offerings for regulated financial institutions.
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Market Reality Check
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HUBC’s -22.91% move contrasts with mixed, low-magnitude peer moves (e.g., MCRP -0.98%, SNCR +0.35%, JG -0.29%, UBXG -0.01%, VHC -0.43%), indicating stock-specific pressure rather than a broad sector swing.
Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | Legal settlement | Positive | -22.9% | Planned settlement of legacy U.S. securities class action for $11M. |
| 2025-12-10 | Platform positioning | Positive | -22.9% | Described larger opportunity in compliance-driven finance and KYC/AML contracts. |
| 2025-12-09 | Product launch | Positive | -20.5% | Launched HUB Compliance™ with multi-year deal from aerospace and defense client. |
| 2025-12-08 | Compliance framing | Positive | +1.0% | Outlined HUB Compliance™ benefits turning regulatory pressure into operational speed. |
| 2025-12-08 | Strategic vision | Positive | +1.0% | Positioned HUB as architect of hardware-rooted digital trust with new defense-grade contract. |
Recent positive operational and strategic announcements often coincided with negative price reactions, though some earlier compliance-product news saw modest gains.
This announcement extends HUBC’s work with a Tier-1 European financial institution, fitting a recent pattern of operational and strategic updates. In early December 2025, HUBC highlighted HUB Compliance™ launches and defense-aligned commercial wins, with modestly positive reactions near +0.99%. More recently, however, the stock declined around -20% to -22.91% following bullish narratives about platform opportunity and an $11 million class action settlement largely funded by insurers. Against that backdrop, today’s deepened European engagement continues the theme of institutional traction in regulated sectors.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement deepens HUBC’s long-standing relationship with a Tier-1 European financial institution by adding application security testing, mobile penetration testing, and code-review services under an existing multi-year engagement. It builds on earlier December updates around HUB Compliance™ and institutional contracts in regulated sectors. Investors may track how such wins translate into reported revenues and margins, and how they complement prior legal and financing steps, including the $11 million class action settlement and up to $20 million private placement.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HUB Cyber Security Ltd. (Nasdaq: HUBC) (“HUB” or the “Company”), a global leader in confidential computing and secured data fabric technologies, today announced that it has expanded its long-standing relationship with a major European financial institution, adding new cybersecurity assessment and consultancy services to an existing multi-year engagement.
Under the expanded scope, HUB will deliver application security testing, including mobile-application penetration testing and code-review services. The expansion reflects the client’s continued confidence in HUB’s capabilities and supports ongoing digital risk and compliance initiatives.
This engagement aligns with HUB’s broader go-to-market activities in Europe, where the Company is expanding its portfolio of security, compliance and secured data fabric offerings for regulated financial institutions.
“When a Tier-1 European financial institution chooses to deepen a multi-year relationship with our Company, it sends a clear message,” said Noah Hershcoviz, CEO of HUB Cyber Security. “HUB is becoming a trusted player in the security stack of some of the world’s most demanding environments - not by marketing, but by actual performance. This expansion is another step in our broader European strategy, and we expect more to follow.”
About HUB Cyber Security Ltd.
HUB Cyber Security Ltd. (Nasdaq: HUBC) is a global leader in confidential computing, AI-driven data fabric, and cybersecurity. HUB's Secured Data Fabric (SDF) empowers organizations to virtualize, secure, and analyze sensitive data across borders and silos generating real-time intelligence while meeting the highest regulatory standards. With operations across North America, Europe, and Israel, HUB partners with Fortune 100 companies, global banks, and sovereign institutions to secure the next generation of digital infrastructure.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are typically identified by words such as “plan,” “believe,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “outlook,” “estimate,” “future,” “forecast,” “project,” “continue,” “could,” “may,” “might,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “seem,” “should,” “will,” “would” and other similar words and expressions, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.
The forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of HUB, as applicable, and are inherently subject to uncertainties and changes in circumstances and their potential effects and speak only as of the date of such statement. There can be no assurance that future developments will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties, or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those discussed and identified in public filings made with the SEC by HUB and the following: (i) significant uncertainty regarding the adequacy of HUB’s liquidity and capital resources and its ability to repay its obligations as they become due; (ii) the war between Israel and Hamas commenced in October 2023, which may harm Israel’s economy and HUB’s business; (iii) expectations regarding HUB’s strategies and future financial performance, including its future business plans or objectives, prospective performance and opportunities and competitors, revenues, products and services, pricing, operating expenses, market trends, liquidity, cash flows and uses of cash, capital expenditures, and HUB’s ability to invest in growth initiatives and pursue acquisition opportunities; (iv) the outcome of any legal or regulatory proceedings against HUB in connection with our previously announced internal investigation or otherwise; (v) the ability to meet stock exchange continued listing standards and remain listed on the Nasdaq; (vi) competition, the ability of HUB to grow and manage growth profitably, maintain relationships with customers and suppliers and retain its management and key employees; (vii) limited liquidity and trading of HUB’s securities; (viii) geopolitical risk, including military action and related sanctions, and changes in applicable laws or regulations; (ix) the possibility that HUB may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (x) other risks and uncertainties set forth in the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in HUB’s Annual Report on Form 20-F filed on May 1, 2025.
Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should any of the assumptions made by the management of HUB prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements.
All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning HUB or other matters addressed in this press release and attributable to HUB or any person acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements contained or referred to in the press release. Except to the extent required by applicable law or regulation, HUB undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this press release to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Investor Relations
Lytham Partners
Ben Shamsian
646-829-9701
shamsian@lythampartners.com
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