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In Other News: Canadian Hacker Jailed, Open Source Zero-Days, Two Sentenced for ATM Jackpotting<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.securityweek.com\/in-other-news-canadian-hacker-jailed-open-source-zero-days-two-sentenced-for-atm-jackpotting\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-07-03 11:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.securityweek.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: <\/a><\/p>\n

Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. <\/p>\n

SecurityWeek\u2019s cybersecurity news weekly roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage but remain relevant to the broader threat landscape.<\/p>\n

This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment.<\/p>\n

Here are this week\u2019s highlights:<\/p>\n

Anonymous-linked hacker Aubrey Cottle jailed over Texas GOP cyberattack<\/p>\n

Aubrey Cottle, a Canadian hacker associated with the hacktivist group Anonymous, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his involvement in a cyberattack on the Texas Republican Party\u2019s website in September 2021. Cottle, 39, of Oshawa, Ontario, pleaded guilty to defacing the website, exfiltrating data from a Texas GOP server, and publishing the data online.<\/p>\n

14 million impacted by KDDI data breachAdvertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/p>\n

Japanese telecoms provider KDDI has disclosed (PDF) a data breach likely impacting the email addresses and passwords of 14,22 million people. The incident affected five ISP operators, including BIGLOBE, Chubu Telecommunications C., JCOM Co., NIFTY Corporation, and STNet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Push Security targeted in poisoned tenant attack<\/p>\n

Three years after detailing the poisoned tenant attack, Push Security was targeted using the technique via OpenAI\u2019s organization invitation feature. Multiple employees received an OpenAI invitation to join Push Security Inc. After they would join the tenant, the attacker could spy on their activities or target them with further social engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rust-based PamStealer targeting macOS<\/p>\n

Jamf has detailed PamStealer, an information stealer targeting macOS that validates the harvested credentials via Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) before using them. The malware is distributed as a compiled AppleScript file impersonating the open source clipboard manager Maccy.<\/p>\n

Russian hackers behind the 2025 Jaguar Land Rover hack<\/p>\n

The cyberattack that severely disrupted Jaguar Land Rover\u2019s operations in September 2025 was mounted by Russian hackers, The New York Times says. Microsoft reportedly notified the car manufacturer about the hacking group, with Mandiant, Palo Alto Networks, and US and UK law enforcement agencies also involved in the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pegasus spyware targeted a European Parliament member investigating it<\/p>\n

Former member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with NSO Group\u2019s Pegasus spyware while he was investigating Pegasus abuse cases, as part of the PEGA committee, Citizen Lab discovered. The targeting has not been attributed to a specific government, and there is no evidence that the Greek Government was involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Researcher drops dozens of zero-days in open source projects<\/p>\n

A researcher known as Bikini has published proof-of-concept (PoC) code targeting dozens of zero-day vulnerabilities in multiple open source projects, including FFmpeg, Gogs, Gitea, Ghidra, 7-Zip, OpenVPN, and VLC. Nine of the security defects have been assigned a CVE identifier. The issues, the researcher says, were surfaced via LLM fuzzing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pro-Russia influence operations are shifting<\/p>\n

Four years into Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, pro-Russia influence operations are shifting from their single focus on Ukraine to pre-war objectives, Google says. Covert pro-Russia influence operations are targeting the US, European Union members, NATO, Russia\u2019s neighbors, the Middle East and Africa, and internal entities. They focus on global events, elections, the war in Ukraine, and emerging geopolitical developments and events, and are increasingly relying on generative AI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Venezuelans sentenced in the US over ATM jackpotting<\/p>\n

Two illegal aliens from Venezuela, Carlos Javier Padron, 36, and Arnoldo Cabrera Torrealba, 37, have been sentenced to 78 months in prison in the US for their involvement in ATM jackpotting activities. As part of a sophisticated criminal group, they built and deployed a variant of the Ploutus malware on ATMs across the US and used it to withdraw money without authorization. They were also ordered to jointly pay $1.5 million in restitution. 96 other defendants have been charged over their roles in the operation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cisco and Synology patches<\/p>\n

Cisco has released fixes for seven ClamAV vulnerabilities impacting Secure Endpoint Connector for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and Secure Endpoint Private Cloud, and for one flaw in Catalyst Center. Synology resolved three security defects in MailPlus Server, including two critical bugs that could allow attackers to read or write arbitrary files and cause DoS conditions.<\/p>\n

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