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UpGuard’s ASX 200 Cybersecurity Report: 1 in 10 ASX 200 Companies Already Infected by Dark Web Infostealers

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Although there was a slight improvement in the ASX 200’s security rating, it was driven by post-incident security fixes, not proactive strategy

HOBART, Australia, May 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — UpGuard, a leader in cybersecurity and risk management, released its annual ASX 200 Cybersecurity Report, which measures the cyber risk exposure of Australia’s largest listed companies. Based on daily scanning of billions of data points, UpGuard benchmarked external security posture on a 0–950 scale, finding the average score for the ASX 200 was 728.5 in 2025, equating to a B rating, and showing a 1.58 percent improvement from 2024. However, the report also found that 10 percent of the ASX 200 had active, verified infostealer infections. In addition, the research identified a trend where security scores typically remain stagnant until a major global security issue, such as the CrowdStrike outage, triggers a brief spike in remediation activity. However, these reactive security improvements often subside within months as organizational priorities shift. 

Key Findings from the 2025 Report:

Identity is the primary attack vector: 1 in 10 ASX 200 companies had high confidence that credentials were circulating in infostealer logs, with 71 percent of these infections concentrated in the largest organizations. Supply chain cascade risk: The majority of ASX 200 rely on the same core SaaS platforms, creating a cascade effect where a single vendor vulnerability can exploit hundreds of companies.Encryption is the weakest link for the second year running: Encryption is the lowest-scoring technical category, leaving data privacy at significant risk.Sector leaders and laggards: Information Technology (776) and Utilities (769) lead the index, while the Materials sector (673) continues to rank lowest in overall security posture.Attack surface volatility: In every security category, nearly a third of companies ended up in a worse position than in 2024.

“Even as companies in the ASX 200 continue their efforts to improve security, our research shows that the rise of sophisticated identity threats like infostealers, and new mandates under Australia’s Cyber Security Act 2024 mean that periodic security checks are no longer enough,” said Greg Pollock, director of Research and Insights at UpGuard. “Maintaining robust cybersecurity standards requires a shift to continuous, comprehensive cyber risk posture management that reflects a true end-to-end security posture. Success will be determined by three factors: awareness of change, time to remediation, and security fundamentals.”

Real security posture requires total visibility across an organization’s attack surface, vendors, and threat exposure. To address the challenges in the current threat landscape, ASX 200 organizations need to have a unified system that addresses those three key risk dimensions. Recommendations include:

Implement continuous external scanning to know what is visible on the public Internet.Transition to real-time vendor risk monitoring.Deploy dedicated dark web monitoring and credential exposure detection.

Methodology:
UpGuard’s analysis is derived from UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) Platform, which provides security ratings based on a quantitative assessment of external cybersecurity posture. This is done using a proprietary, subtractive scoring algorithm that benchmarks performance on a 0–950 scale, with assets starting at a perfect score and deductions applied based on the weighted severity of identified risks and vulnerabilities.

To download the full report, visit here.

UpGuard Summit:
To learn more industry insights and explore the future of cyber risk, UpGuard is holding its quarterly APAC Summit May 21 at 1:00 PM AEST. To register for this online event, visit: https://www.upguard.com/summit

About UpGuard
Founded in 2012, UpGuard is a leader in cybersecurity and risk management. The company’s AI-powered platform for Cyber Risk Posture Management (CRPM) provides a centralized, actionable view of cyber risk across an organization’s vendors, attack surface, and workforce. Trusted by thousands of companies, UpGuard’s platform is designed to help security teams manage cyber risk with confidence and efficiency. UpGuard is headquartered in Hobart, Tasmania with US headquarters in Mountain View, California. To learn more, visit www.upguard.com.

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Redox and Lapsi Health Collaborate to Bring Industry-Leading AI-Powered Tools Directly Into EHR Workflows

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Fragmented Clinical Workflows Stall Enterprise AI Adoption. Lapsi Health and Redox Connect AI Documentation, Clinical Reference, and Diagnostic Support Directly Into the EHR So Clinicians Never Have to Leave the Chart.

MADISON, Wis. and AMSTERDAM, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Redox and Lapsi Health today announced a collaboration aimed at addressing one of healthcare’s biggest challenges: workflow fragmentation.

As health systems and other healthcare organizations rapidly adopt AI technologies, clinicians are often forced to navigate multiple disconnected systems for documentation, clinical research, diagnostics, and patient care. While AI capabilities continue to improve, implementation and adoption stagnate when those tools fail to integrate into existing clinical workflows.

Together, Lapsi Health and Redox are helping healthcare organizations overcome that challenge by connecting the Keikku Clinical Platform with existing EHR infrastructure.

Keikku is an AI clinical platform that combines AI-powered documentation, contextual clinical reference, diagnostic support, and purpose-built clinical hardware within a single connected workflow. As Lapsi Health’s healthcare data interoperability partner, Redox provides a direct path to integrate with health systems’ EHRs, without building each connection from scratch. That’s possible through Redox’s Connection Network, spanning more than 12,000 healthcare organizations and systems, including over 100 EHRs, as well as revenue cycle platforms, state and regional HIEs, and more.

“Healthcare doesn’t need more disconnected AI tools. Teams need solutions that integrate naturally into existing clinical workflows,” said Rodrigo Alvez, Chief Technology Officer at Lapsi Health. “Our collaboration with Redox helps healthcare organizations reduce integration complexity, accelerate implementation, and connect AI-powered clinical intelligence with the systems clinicians already rely on every day.”

Redox recently launched an industry-leading suite of AI capabilities built to help integration teams move faster, reinforcing its role as the healthcare data infrastructure layer that AI-powered applications like Keikku depend on to run in production.

By combining Keikku’s clinical AI platform with Redox’s interoperability capabilities, organizations can simplify implementation and create a more connected clinical experience.

“The question healthcare organizations are asking isn’t whether AI is ready; it’s how to get it running in their production environment without a twelve-month implementation and a dedicated team to maintain it,” said Rachel Witalec, Chief Product Officer at Redox. “What Redox brings to this collaboration is a data infrastructure layer that fast-tracks the hard integration work upfront and keeps it running. That’s the foundation Keikku needs to perform in the real world.”

Through Redox, health systems can integrate Keikku into existing EHR environments, reducing barriers to adoption and enabling clinicians to access documentation, evidence-based clinical support, and diagnostic insights without leaving the chart.

Organizations can deploy Keikku as a software-only platform or with hardware-enabled capabilities that support ambient clinical audio capture and diagnostic auscultation.

About Lapsi Health

Lapsi Health is a Dutch-American clinical AI company building multi-modal intelligence solutions for modern healthcare. Its flagship platform, Keikku, combines AI-powered clinical documentation, contextual clinical reference, diagnostic support, and purpose-built clinical hardware to help healthcare organizations transform patient interactions into connected clinical workflows. Lapsi Health’s mission is to transform how clinicians capture, structure, and act on patient data, moving from isolated signals to integrated clinical intelligence.

For more information, visit www.keikku.health or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Redox

Redox is your healthcare data interoperability partner. We help provider, payer, healthtech, EHR, and medtech organizations power better care with seamless data interoperability. Our secure platform’s read/write capabilities translate, normalize, enrich, and orchestrate complex healthcare data in real time. With a connected network of more than 12,000 organizations, customers use Redox Engine to accelerate connected healthcare across a wide range of systems, applications, and workflows. 

For more information, visit www.redoxengine.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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AMP publishes 2025 Sustainability Report

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LUXEMBOURG, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP), a global supplier of sustainable aluminium beverage cans, today published its 2025 Sustainability Report, reaffirming its commitment to environmental stewardship, social impact, and transparent governance while delivering a strong financial performance across the business.

2025 was a strong year for AMP which delivered over 3% year-on-year sales volume growth despite a complex and volatile external environment, while continuing to make progress towards its sustainability goals and reinforcing its commitment to responsible growth and long-term thinking.

Key 2025 Environmental Highlights:

Renewable Electricity: Increased global renewable electricity coverage to 47% – with a 17% increase versus the prior year and strong regional progress (Europe now at 61%, South America at 100% and North America at 20%).GHG Emissions:Scope 1 & 2: 18% combined emissions reduction versus the previous year and a 16% combined emissions reduction versus the 2020 baseline.Scope 3: Achieved a 18% reduction from the 2020 baseline, versus our 2030 target of a 12.3%.Circularity: AMP’s aluminium beverage cans achieved an average recycled content of 76% recycled aluminium, compared with 64% in 2020.Waste and water: A key marker in this space for AMP was the achievement of 100% Zero Waste to Landfill across all AMP facilities; water withdrawal intensity improved by 3.6% from the 2020 baseline year.

Social and Governance Progress:

AMP continued investing in employee development, with nearly 9,500 training courses and more than 10,000 Technical Training assessments delivered. Community involvement programmes noted in the report include biodiversity projects, recycling initiatives and the Ardagh for Education programme, which has now reached more than 110,000 students worldwide. Achieving EcoVadis Platinum status placing AMP among the top 1% of all companies globally, reflecting the strength of our sustainability management systems.

Oliver Graham, CEO of AMP, added: “Our 2025 Sustainability Report demonstrates that at AMP, growth and sustainability can progress together. As demand for aluminium beverage packaging continues to grow, we have continued to reduce environmental impacts, maintain our focus on circularity, and strengthen transparency across our value chain. The report highlights meaningful progress across our key sustainability priorities, including enhancing transparency through our Product Carbon Footprint model. Together, these achievements reflect our commitment to innovation, responsible growth, and collaboration across the value chain.”

The report also serves as a supplement to AMP’s 2026 Communication on Progress (COP) to the UN Global Compact and reinforces the company’s long-term ESG roadmap.

To access AMP’s 2025 Sustainability Report and learn more about its sustainability journey, please click here.

Ardagh Metal Packaging (AMP) is a leading global supplier of sustainable and inherently recyclable metal beverage cans to brand owners globally. An operating business of sustainable packaging business Ardagh Group, AMP is a leading industry player across Europe and the Americas with innovative production capabilities. AMP operates 23 production facilities in nine countries, employing approximately 6,500 people with sales of approximately $5.5 billion in 2025.

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bidadoo Launches “SnapShot by bidadoo” Mobile Selling Solution, Empowering Equipment Owners to List Assets in Minutes

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SEATTLE, July 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — bidadoo, the largest and most trusted used equipment and truck auction provider on the world’s largest auction marketplace – eBay, today announced the launch of SnapShot by bidadoo. This innovative, mobile-first selling solution acts as an efficient “eBay on-ramp,” allowing fleet managers and equipment owners to instantly list machinery for sale directly from their smartphone, maximizing net returns while bypassing traditional transport, 3rd-party inspection fees and scheduling.

Backed by bidadoo’s 23 years of online auction expertise, SnapShot by bidadoo addresses a massive pain point for heavy equipment sellers: the high cost, coordination headache, and down-time associated with transporting heavy assets to physical auction yards. With SnapShot by bidadoo, equipment stays on-site and can list on eBay — the world’s largest auction platform — almost instantly.

“From the start, bidadoo has been a pioneer in the online remarketing space, from our strategic partnership with eBay to the efficiency of our ‘Sell-In-Place’ model,” said Loren Carlson, VP of Sales and Business Development. “SnapShot by bidadoo is the next step in this evolution, acting as an intuitive, high-speed onramp that supercharges our unique platform while paving the way for more exciting selling solutions to come.”

“The Snapshot by bidadoo app is intuitive and easy to navigate, providing detailed information that supports efficient decision making,” said Terry Sluder, District Service Manager at Sunbelt Rentals. “Additionally, the support team is top-notch, responsive, knowledgeable, and always willing to help when needed.”

How It Works: The Five-Step SnapShot Journey

Capture in Minutes: Sellers download the SnapShot by bidadoo mobile app or open a secure inspection link to capture asset details, photos, and video right from the field. No specialized expertise is required.

Optimized by Experts: Once submitted, bidadoo’s professional production team reviews the asset details, guarantees data quality, and builds a professional, market-ready listing.

Launch & List: Listings go live on bidadoo and eBay’s massive online marketplace. The bidadoo team takes over full management of buyer inquiries, bids, offers, payments, and logistic support.

Global Marketing Reach: Using AI-powered, multi-channel marketing campaigns, assets are pushed to millions of global end-user buyers.

Secure Sale & Pay-out: Following a successful transaction, bidadoo collects the payment, coordinates the logistics and buyer pickup, and quickly distributes secure returns to the seller.

Disrupting the Traditional Auction Model

By keeping equipment on-site (Sell-In-Place) and automating the intake process via mobile technology, SnapShot by bidadoo provides equipment owners with higher net returns and total control over their sales schedule. Furthermore, because bidadoo eliminates the standard 10–15% buyer’s premium found at traditional auctions, buyers can put their full purchasing power directly toward their bids, driving higher final sales values for bidadoo sellers.

SnapShot by bidadoo integrates seamlessly with bidadoo’s versatile sales models, including their Weekly No-Reserve Auctions, 24/7 Buy It Now Marketplace, and the soon to be announced Fleet Exchange (FleetX) platform.

Equipment owners and fleet managers interested in trying the platform or scheduling a team training session can visit www.bidadoo.com/snapshot for more information or contact bidadoo at SnapShotGo@bidadoo.com to get started!

About bidadoo

As eBay’s largest and most trusted online auction partner, bidadoo connects sellers to a global network of millions of buyers. bidadoo provides professional remarketing of used construction equipment, rental and municipal fleets, trucks, and other capital assets to many of the world’s largest equipment and fleet companies. Check out our weekly online auctions at http://www.bidadoo.com

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