Tech Talks With Kinsoft

Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: SpaceX makes the largest startup acquisition in history, buying AI-coding company Cursor for around $60 billion in stock — days after its own IPO. Washington uses export-control powers to force Anthropic to pull its most powerful models on national-security grounds. The Klue OAuth breach we flagged a fortnight ago balloons to nearly 200 companies, including a who's-who of security vendors. And world leaders sit down with AI's biggest names at the G7, as SoftBank pledges €45 billion for French data centres.

Trying to work out what all this AI consolidation means for your own tech stack? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: CNBC; TechCrunch; Fortune; SecurityWeek; BleepingComputer; Global Banking & Finance.

A clean, cautionary supply-chain story from the US. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department disclosed that attackers breached the third-party vendor processing its hunting and fishing licences, exposing personal data — including driver's-licence and passport numbers — for more than three million people. No ransomware, no dramatic leak site; just a quiet vendor compromise leaking exactly the kind of identity documents you can't change. We dig into why government-via-vendor breaches keep happening, and why passport and licence numbers are the data attackers now want most.

Do you know what your third-party vendors can see? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: SecurityWeek; KXAN.

An Australian ransomware story you can taste. Mackay Sugar — the country's second-largest raw sugar producer — was hit by the ransomware crew "The Gentlemen" right at the start of the North Queensland crushing season, forcing shutdowns at two of its three mills and leaving 1,300-plus cane-farming families with nowhere to send their harvest. We unpack how an attack on IT systems becomes a physical, region-wide supply-chain problem, why critical infrastructure and agriculture are increasingly in the crosshairs, and what "operational technology" risk really means for Aussie businesses.

Worried a cyber incident could stop your operations, not just leak your data? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: SecurityWeek; Cyber Daily; The Record; Mackay Sugar incident updates.

Your Monday catch-up on the week that was in tech, with a security lens. This week: Apple finally reveals its overhauled, AI-powered Siri at WWDC 2026 — running partly on Google's Gemini models. The AI infrastructure land grab heats up as Alphabet rents out its new TPUs in a $5B Blackstone joint venture and Microsoft ships its Maia 200 accelerator. Anthropic's Claude posts eye-watering growth and formalises a $100M partner program. And on the security desk: ShinyHunters exploit an Oracle PeopleSoft flaw to hit universities, Europol dismantles a €336M crypto-laundering pipeline used by ransomware crews, CISA flags three newly exploited vulnerabilities, and a new gang called The Gentlemen climbs the ransomware rankings.

Want last week's headlines turned into a plan for your own environment? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: Apple Newsroom; Engadget; CNBC; NPR; TechCrunch; Tech Startups; BuildFastWithAI; Europol; Google/Mandiant; CISA.

In a major global incident, the Everest ransomware group claimed sportswear giant Under Armour as a victim in late 2025, alleging access to around 343GB of data — and in January 2026 a dataset containing roughly 72 million customer email addresses (about 72.7 million accounts) was published on a hacking forum. In this episode of Tech Talks with Kinsoft, we cover the data involved — names, email addresses, dates of birth, locations and purchase information — the verification by services like Have I Been Pwned, the class-action lawsuits that followed, and Under Armour's response, including that it was investigating and found no evidence its payment-processing or password systems were affected. We flag where claims are alleged rather than confirmed.

Worried about brand-scale breaches and protecting customer data? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: TechCrunch; Malwarebytes.

Sydney home builder Champion Homes has confirmed a cyber incident after the DragonForce ransomware group claimed responsibility for an attack that saw roughly 44GB of company data stolen and leaked to the dark web. In this episode of Tech Talks with Kinsoft, we unpack what happened: the data taken — including employee payroll records, customer quotes, and tender and legal documents — how DragonForce's ransomware-as-a-service model operates, and how Champion Homes contained the incident and notified the relevant authorities while continuing to operate across the Sydney and Illawarra regions.

Concerned about your own exposure to ransomware and data breaches? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: Cyber Daily; Real Estate Business.

Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: GitHub Copilot switches to token-based billing and developers revolt over surprise bills, Microsoft shows off a cheaper homegrown coding model at Build, and SoftBank commits up to €75B to AI data centres in France — Europe's biggest such bet. On the breach desk: an OAuth attack on sales-intelligence firm Klue cascades into Salesforce data theft across HackerOne, Gong, OneTrust, Tanium and Huntress; Nintendo is hit by ransomware; and Oxford's careers platform is breached. The OAuth supply-chain pattern is the one to watch.

Using connected SaaS apps and OAuth integrations? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: BuildFastWithAI; Medium (David Akpovi); imfounder; SharkStriker; The Hacker News.

Charter Communications (Spectrum) confirmed in late May 2026 that it had suffered a data breach after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen customer records; roughly 4.9 million accounts had personal details exposed (the group claimed far more from Charter's Salesforce). ShinyHunters says it used a vishing call on 1 April 2026 to trick a Charter employee into surrendering Microsoft Entra access, then reached Salesforce data. We tie it to the broader ShinyHunters Salesforce and SSO campaign and the recurring vishing playbook.

Want to harden your identity provider against vishing? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: Security Affairs; Techlicious.

In April 2026, the DragonForce ransomware group claimed it breached Gelatissimo, the Australian artisanal gelato franchise, and listed the company on its dark web leak site. In this episode of Tech Talks with Kinsoft, we cover what the group alleges it took — around 352GB of data, with sample screenshots showing employee payroll details, partial tax file numbers, and a visa application containing a passport number — the extortion threat to publish the data, and Gelatissimo's response, including engaging cyber security experts and notifying the OAIC and the Australian Cyber Security Centre. We flag throughout where claims are alleged rather than confirmed.

Worried about ransomware and the safety of your staff and customer data? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: Cyber Daily; ACS Information Age.

Your Monday catch-up, with a security lens. This week: Anthropic is reportedly closing a $30B round at a $900B-plus valuation and projecting its first-ever quarterly operating profit — even as SpaceX filings reveal eye-watering compute bills. The politics heat up as President Trump abruptly cancels an AI executive order. A worrying safety finding shows researchers stripping the guardrails off major AI models in minutes. And on the breach desk: security vendor Trellix has attackers in its own source code, drug-delivery manufacturer West Pharmaceutical recovers from a crippling attack, and education-sector attacks jump again.

Concerned your security tools themselves could be a target? Visit www.kinsoft.com.au to talk through your security and IT needs.

Sources: Tech Startups; BuildFastWithAI; Bloomberg; Comparitech; cm-alliance.