HIPAA Pulse
Healthcare is the most-targeted industry for cyberattacks. Ransomware groups, nation-state actors, and opportunistic hackers specifically target the healthcare sector because of the value of patient data and the pressure to pay ransoms. Independent practices face the same threat landscape as hospital systems — but with a fraction of the security infrastructure. These alerts cover the threats that matter most to small and mid-size providers.
Today
There is an update to an arrest made in Greece in November as part of Operation Endgame. Ekathimerini reports: A 39-year-old Albanian national known online as “Venom” was extradited to France in mid-May after his arrest last November at his apartment in the Nikaia district of Athens. The suspect, who described himself as a construction... Source
As AI accelerates phishing, session hijacking, and credential abuse, security teams are racing to close the gap between attacker speed and defensive response. The post The Credential Crisis: How Stolen Credentials Defeat Modern Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Earlier
Julian Lim reports: The hardest part of crypto security used to be keeping private keys away from hackers. In France, the problem has moved much closer to home. A new report says roughly 70% of documented wrench attacks against crypto holders and their families are happening there, turning a niche security term into a very... Source
Jordan Ercit reports: Jacob Butler, 23, who was arrested Wednesday by OPP, also facing aiding and abetting computer intrusion charge in Alaska A 23-year-old Ottawa man is facing extradition to the United States after being accused of involvement in massive cyberattacks that affected more than a million devices worldwide. Ontario Provincial Police said their cybercrime... Source
Tushar Subhra Dutta reports: Hackers have found a new and alarming way to weaponize one of the most trusted platforms in the AI world. A threat actor linked to North Korea has embedded second-stage malware inside Hugging Face, the widely used AI and machine learning hub, effectively turning it into a malware delivery channel and... Source
Do those who say never to pay ransomware or hack-and-leak criminals because it encourages more crime also say never to pay those who hack crypto? If you negotiate with hackers to let them keep a percent of what they stole as a non-prosecutable "bounty," aren't you just creating more incentive for other criminals? Kenrodgers Fabian... Source
Officials allege that WorkTitans and MIRhosting were used to facilitate pro-Russian hackers and evade EU sanctions. Huib Modderkolk and Henrik Moltke write: Youssef Z. may have seen trouble coming. The 57-year-old entrepreneur and organizational consultant from Amsterdam, arrested at his home in the early hours of Monday 18 May by agents of the Dutch fiscal investigation... Source
Adil Faouzi reports: Global cybersecurity firms Kaspersky and Group-IB have disclosed their contributions to Operation Ramz, the first large-scale cybercrime crackdown coordinated by INTERPOL across the Middle East and North Africa region. The operation, which ran from October 2025 to February 2026, brought together 13 countries and resulted in 201 arrests, with 382 additional suspects... Source
Alexander Martin reports: The British government’s plans to overhaul the country's main cybercrime law would offer such narrow legal protections that most security researchers would be left in the same position as today, multiple sources briefed on the proposals have told Recorded Future News. Plans to amend the Computer Misuse Act 1990 were announced in the... Source
Modern crypto drainers don't hack wallets. They trick users into approving malicious transactions. Flare explores how the Lucifer DaaS platform scales wallet theft through phishing and automation. [...]
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