The Five Eyes cyber agencies issued a joint statement warning boards and executives that frontier AI is transforming cyber risk on a timeline of months rather than years, urging leaders to act now on patching, foundational controls and cyber governance.

The Australian Signals Directorate has released for consultation a major overhaul of its eight-year-old Essential Eight framework, evolving it into a flexible, threat-informed "Essentials" series designed to address modern environments and AI-era attacks.

ASD's updated Information Security Manual introduces a control stating organisations should not use software developers who lack the security skills for their projects, alongside new guidance on AI-assisted security testing and limiting what staff post about their work online.

An ANAO audit found the Department of Parliamentary Services' cybersecurity remains only "partly effective" seven years after its networks were breached, with seven of the eight Essential Eight controls falling short of its mandated maturity level.

Ransomware group Interlock has published more than 600GB of alleged Reynella East College data including passport scans, plaintext credentials and student records on the dark web, two weeks after the Adelaide school first disclosed the breach.

A ransomware attack claimed by Russian-speaking group The Gentlemen shut down Mackay Sugar's Farleigh and Racecourse mills in north Queensland, halting cane haulage and disrupting harvesting for more than 1,300 growers.