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Telecom May Face Up to $2.22 Million Per Violation in Fines
The Australian privacy watchdog sued Optus, saying the country's second largest telecom failed for years to protect sensitive customer data breached during a September 2022 incident affecting nearly 10 million people. The regulator said Optus faces a potential fine of up to AU$21.9 trillion.

CEO Nick Schneider Says Cylance Integration Expands Security Platform Value
Roughly half of clients adopting Aurora endpoint security are replacing older, legacy endpoint solutions, while the other half are swapping out or augmenting next-gen endpoint tools, said CEO Nick Schneider. Arctic Wolf's security operations in Cylance's technology has created a unified platform delivering more than standalone endpoint protection.

CEO Yevgeny Dibrov Says Otorio Acquisition Positions Armis for Strong Growth
Armis CEO Yevgeny Dibrov outlines how the Otorio acquisition is driving OT security advances, enabling on-prem deployments and secure remote access. He also details AI's role in defense, Nvidia collaborations and upcoming products to expand the cyber exposure management suite.

Also: US Cyber Grants Are Dwindling; Hybrid Threats Renew Focus on OT Resilience
In this week’s update, four ISMG editors examined the voice phishing attacks linked to the Google and Cisco breaches, the funding gap in U.S. cybersecurity support for local governments and the implications of hybrid warfare on operational technology resilience.

Firm Says Latest Model Hallucinates Less, Scores Better on Benchmarks
OpenAI's unveiling of its latest and newest model arrived wrapped in the big-claim language now standard in the generative artificial intelligence race. The company calls GPT-5 its "smartest, fastest, most useful model yet," but in 2025, those superlatives are table stakes.

Lawmakers Demand Answers From UHG Amid New Breach and Growing Fallout
When you've been the victim of the largest health data breach in U.S. history, and you've been under intense public and regulatory scrutiny for months, the last thing you want to do is to report another major breach less than a year after the last one. But that just happened to UnitedHealth Group.

Chipmaker Argues Against Growing Interest in US to Require New Security Measures
Artificial intelligence chip-making powerhouse Nvidia is rejecting claims from China’s top cyber agency that its H20 chips include location tracking and kill-switch features - while warning U.S. lawmakers against requiring those capabilities in future chip designs.

CISA Issues Emergency Directive Requiring Federal Agencies to Fix Flaw
A vulnerability in Exchange hybrid deployments could allow attackers to escalate privileges and gain administrative access to cloud-based environments. Microsoft said Tuesday there is no evidence of its exploitation and "strongly" recommended installing hot fix updates made available in April.

Also: Ukrainian Hackers Find Evidence of Russian Child Abduction
This week, a Chinese duo arrested in Los Angeles for illegal artificial intelligence chip exports back to China, France extradited an accused Nigerian hacker, Ukraine hacked Crimean servers, Florida prison email leak, Tea App clone exposed users’ IDs.

4 Bugs Affecting at Least 6,500 Camera Servers Enable Pre-Auth Attacks on Devices
Researchers who uncovered four severe flaws in Axis Communications' video management and camera software say thousands of internet-connected surveillance systems are vulnerable to remote attacks. Attackers can execute arbitrary code without authentication.

ShinyHunters May Have Struck Again
Airlines Air France and KLM said they suffered a data breach involving a third-party service storing customer data. The alert comes as the ShinyHunters extortion group continues to target Salesforce-using organizations and trick them into sharing direct access to their customer data.

Also: Samourai Wallet Co-Founders' Guilty Plea, Coinbase Loss From Data Theft
This week, Tornado Cash co-founder convicted, Samourai Wallet guilty plea, Coinbase insider data theft, a U.S. court overturned an OpenSea executive's fraud conviction, AI-written malware stole crypto, Credix exploit, CZ sought dismissal of FTX claim, July hacks and a FinCEN crypto ATM warning.

OpenAI CEO Says AI Has Beaten Voice Recognition, But Experts Disagree
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently claimed that artificial intelligence has "fully defeated most of the ways that people authenticate currently, other than passwords." A host of security experts disagree and point out that passwords got us into this authentication mess to begin with.

CISA Lists Flaws as Actively Exploited
Hackers are actively exploiting years-old flaws in obsolete Wi-Fi cameras and video recorders made by D-Link, warn U.S. cybersecurity authorities. Possibly Chinese hackers have used one of the flaws to implant HiatusRAT malware. "Attackers don’t care if a vulnerability is new or old."

Interlock Claims to Have 1.5TB of DaVita's Data as Expenses Mount
DaVita Inc., one of the largest kidney dialysis providers in the world, told regulators that an April cyberattack has cost the company $13.5 million so far and has affected more than one million people in the U.S., and counting. Interlock says it's behind the data theft and ransomware attack.

Cursor Patched Flaw Days After Disclosure, Says Check Point
Check Point researchers found a RCE flaw in Cursor, an AI-powered code editor, by manipulating a previously approved model context protocol configuration. Once a developer approved a configuration file for an MCP server, any future changes to that file could be executed without further prompts.

Inskit Researchers Uncover Clusters in Hungary, Saudi Arabia
Security researchers uncovered a previously unseen malware cluster associated with Israeli spyware maker Candiru. The company may have rebranded itself to evade sanctions to continue its operations. It continues to operate despite its inclusion in 2021 onto an exports blacklist by the United States.

Cyber Volunteers Can Gain Real-World Experience While Protecting Communities
When people think about a career in cybersecurity, they often picture certifications, technical exams and entry-level jobs that require years of preparation. For those coming from non-traditional backgrounds, the journey can feel like a dead end. But what if there were other ways to explore it?

Voice Phishing Attacks on Salesforce Users Remains Repeat ShinyHunters Tactic
Technology giants Google and Cisco separately said they've both suffered recent data breaches after attackers socially engineered their employees via voice phishing attacks, leading to a breach of their customer relationship management software, exposing customer data.

AI Powerhouse Releases Its First Public Model in 6 Years
OpenAI released its first open-weight reasoning models since GPT-2, unveiling gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under the Apache 2.0 license. With performance approaching o-series benchmarks, the models are designed specifically for reasoning tasks.