HeartCrypt’s wholesale impersonation effort

Matt Kapko reports that a Canadian national has consented to be extradited to the United States to face federal charges that could send him away for a long, long time: A Canadian citizen is one step closer to standing trial in the United States for his alleged involvement in a series of attacks targeting as…

On May 23, the North Shore University Sleep Disorders Center in New York notified HHS that 13,332 patients were affected by a breach that it coded as “Unauthorized Access/Disclosure” of data located “Other.” While the number affected might not seem unusually disturbing in this day and age of big breaches, the circumstances of the breach…

The US Justice Department has announced charges against three Russians for operating the Blender and Sinbad cryptocurrency mixers. The post US Charges 3 Russians for Operating Cryptocurrency Mixers Used by Cybercriminals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Apple isn’t acknowledging any wrongdoing in the settlement, which must be approved by a Judge and represents a sliver of the $705 billion in profits that Apple has pocketed since September 2014. The post Apple to Pay $95 Million to Settle Lawsuit Accusing Siri of Snoopy Eavesdropping appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Mexican organizations are still being targeted by threat actors to deliver a modified version of AllaKore RAT and SystemBC as part of a long-running campaign.  The activity has been attributed by Arctic Wolf Labs to a financially motivated hacking group called Greedy Sponge. It’s believed to be active since early 2021, indiscriminately targeting a wide…

A malware campaign has been observed delivering a remote access trojan (RAT) named AsyncRAT by making use of Python payloads and TryCloudflare tunnels. “AsyncRAT is a remote access trojan (RAT) that exploits the async/await pattern for efficient, asynchronous communication,” Forcepoint X-Labs researcher Jyotika Singh said in an analysis. “It allows attackers to control infected systems