Bad actor sells Huiying Medical Technology’s source code for AI-assisted COVID-19 detection

Experts from Cyble identified a threat actor attempting to sell Huiying Medical Technology’s source code for AI-assisted COVID-19 detection and experimental data.

Researchers from the data breach notification firm Cyble have identified a credible bad actor that goes online with moniker ‘THE0TIME’ claiming to have gained access to Huiying Medical Technology’s COVID-19 detection’s technology.

“As part of the breach, the preparator claims to have gained access to the COVID-19 detection technology code, as well as COVID-19 experiments data as well. The price for sale is 4 BTC.” reads a post published by Cyble on Medium.

Huiying Medical Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. researches, develops, manufactures, and distributes medical imaging devices.

Huiying Medical Technology developed an AI-based system that can detect suspected contours of pneumonia from CT Chest DICOM images and identify the symptoms of a COVID-19 infection. Huawei, which partners with Huiying, currently sells the system for USD $50,000 per month.

The threat actors are offering for sale the source code for AI-assisted COVID-19 detection and experimental data

THE0TIME is offering the stolen data for sale at 4 BTC, the dump includes:

• Users — 1.5 MB
• Technology + source code — 1GB
• Knowledge for Covid-19 Experiments information — 150 MB

Cyble offers data breach monitoring services through the platform http://amibreached.com.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – Facebook, hacking)

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