Google cybersecurity arm finds critical hospital exposures

 Google cybersecurity subsidiary Wiz has launched Scan for Good, an AI-driven initiative that has already uncovered critical security exposures at a public hospital and a private hospital.

The program pairs Wiz’s AI-powered Red Agent penetration-testing tool with Google DeepMind’s Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model to scan public-facing websites, APIs and applications for exploitable weaknesses at critical infrastructure, public services, healthcare organizations and nonprofits. Wiz, which Google acquired earlier this year for $32 billion, built Scan for Good in partnership with Google DeepMind and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

At one public hospital, missing access controls exposed staff contact information and let anyone online control the hospital’s mobile alert channel, Wiz said in a Sept. 24 blog post. At a private hospital, an unsecured upload feature on a public appointment-booking site let attackers control a hospital server and expose patient identifiers, clinical records and consent signatures. Wiz worked with both organizations to fix the flaws before publishing the findings and did not name either hospital.

“Defensive vulnerability discovery helps strengthen the nation’s digital infrastructure,” stated acting CISA Director Nick Andersen.

Beyond healthcare, Scan for Good has also flagged exposures at a national archive, a municipal data system, a public rail operator and several major technology platforms, according to Wiz. The company plans to publish anonymized findings on vulnerability patterns as the program expands.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/cybersecurity/google-cybersecurity-arm-finds-critical

Did UnitedHealth Name The Fix Before Its Stock Ran?

 UnitedHealth Group (UNH) stock has risen about 40% since late March 2026, against close to 19% for the S&P 500. Read cold, that looks like a recovery nobody could have timed. It was not hidden. The company had said plainly, months before the shares turned, that it would give up members to rebuild margin.

What Did UnitedHealth Say It Would Give Up?

In July 2025 the company said its 2026 pricing was built around margin recovery, and it named the bill. It would exit plans serving over 600,000 members, mostly less managed products such as PPO offerings. It was narrowing its Medicare Advantage networks.

There was a lot to recover. As of fiscal Q4 2025, the last set of results filed before the run began, UnitedHealth's trailing-twelve-month operating margin was 4.2%, against a three-year average of 7.8%. Revenue over the same twelve months still grew 11.8%, showing volume and demand remained intact. The problem was that medical costs severely outpaced premiums—pricing had failed to keep up with trend.

By October 2025 the company said the repricing at UnitedHealthcare was on track to lift that business's 2026 operating earnings through margin improvement. In January 2026 it sized the retreat: Medicare Advantage membership would contract by 1.3 million to 1.4 million across 2026, an approach it said favored margin recovery. It was also targeting operating cost reductions of nearly $1 billion.

Has UnitedHealth Collected On That Trade?

It has. Adjusted earnings per share in fiscal Q2 2026 were $6.38, against $4.08 a year earlier. In July 2026, with the run already under way, it raised its full-year 2026 adjusted earnings outlook to a range of $19.50 to $20 a share. In January 2026 that outlook had been greater than $17.75. Revenue in fiscal Q2 2026 was largely consistent with the prior year, so the improvement did not come from selling more.

The payoff came largely from the levers the plan laid out, alongside operational adjustments like benefit design and care management, with the final figures landing better than anticipated. Medicare medical cost growth for 2026 is now expected to land below the initial estimate of around 10%. Management attributes that partly to its own benefit design, care management and network curation. The membership bill came in lighter too: Medicare Advantage enrollment is now expected to fall by about 1.1 million for 2026, against the 1.3 million to 1.4 million it had planned.

Did Anticipating The Turn Actually Pay Off?

Partly. The plan was legible and the timing was not. Implied volatility on UNH options climbed from the 37th percentile of its trailing one-year range in early February 2026 to the 91st by mid-March. That said a large move was coming in either direction, and nothing about which one.

The reward was not UnitedHealth's alone either. Elevance Health (ELV) returned 40.3%, a shade ahead of UnitedHealth's 40.0%, while CVS Health (CVS) returned 24.0% and Cigna (CI) 5.9% over the same window, so reading this plan early bought no more than owning the closest peer did. What the plan has still not fixed is the commercial book, where management now expects full margin recovery to run past 2027. 

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/did-unitedhealth-name-fix-stock-162649970.html

Firefly Neuroscience, NeuroSigma to offer FDA-cleared Monarch eTNS System for pediatric ADHD

 

Firefly Neuroscience, NeuroSigma partner to offer FDA-cleared Monarch eTNS System for pediatric ADHD via Firefly Evoke network

• Monarch eTNS System will be introduced through Firefly’s nationwide network of Evoke clinician customers.

https://finviz.com/stock?t=AIFF&p=d

'Iran says international flights continue despite new US sanctions'

 

Flights from Iran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport continue to more than 30 international destinations despite new US sanctions targeting the country’s aviation industry, the airport operator’s chief executive said.

More than 60 flights operated on Sunday and the airport remained at “full capacity,” Ramin Kashef-Azar told the Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Fars news agency.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609277595

Hezbollah contacts Iraqi leaders over Iranian flight ban - Al Arabiya

 

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has contacted Iraqi leaders over restrictions on Iranian flights to Iraq, Al Arabiya reported Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Iraq is seeking US exemptions from Treasury measures to resume Iranian flights for humanitarian and civilian purposes, the prime minister’s office said Saturday.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609271116

Trump says more Iran strikes before midterms ‘possible’

 

US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Sunday that additional military strikes against Iran before the November midterm elections were “possible,” and added the war would end “very soon.”

“I think what’s going to happen is we’re going to win this war very soon,” Trump said at the PGA Tour Presidents Cup, adding that preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was “key to the whole thing.”

Trump said the United States was succeeding both militarily and economically against Iran.

“We’ve already won it really from a military standpoint,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped that.”

Asked whether military strikes could be back on the table before the midterms, Trump declined to rule them out.

“I don’t want to say that. I don’t want to say that. I mean, it’s possible, but I just don’t want to say that,” he said.

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202609272117

Netanyahu may have met with UAE president on Sunday

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Abu Dhabi early on Sunday to meet United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, Israel's Channel 12 reported, citing two sources familiar with the matter.

According to the report, Netanyahu flew to Abu Dhabi by a private plane and spent the day there. However, the sources have not revealed what the two leaders discussed during the meeting.

The report comes after Israeli media disclosed that bin Zayed warned Netanyahu of a possible major Hamas attack days before the October 7 attacks, and the Israeli prime minister allegedly disregarded this warning.

https://breakingthenews.net/Article/Netanyahu-may-have-met-with-UAE-president-on-Sunday/67183258