Theft in cybersecurity covers stolen data, credentials, devices, and funds, often creating risks of unauthorized access, fraud, and privacy loss.
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Unauthorized taking or copying of information, credentials, intellectual property, or digital assets is cyber theft. News under this tag may involve stolen passwords, payment data, personal information, source code, cloud tokens, cryptocurrency, or sensitive business files. Theft can result from phishing, malware, compromised accounts, insider access, exposed storage, or the loss of an unencrypted device; the relevant issue is the unauthorized acquisition or control of an asset, whether or not the attacker also alters systems.
Security teams should identify where valuable data and credentials are stored, restrict access by role, require strong authentication, encrypt data at rest and in transit, and monitor unusual downloads or transfers. Vulnerability management matters when flaws expose databases, endpoints, or cloud services to unauthorized retrieval. After suspected theft, preserving logs, revoking tokens and credentials, determining what was accessed or copied, and assessing privacy or notification obligations are central to containing the incident and measuring its impact.
Some 400 mobile apps have posed as legitimate software on Google Play and the Apple App Store over the past year, and were designed to steal Facebook user credentials.
The group has been operating for over a year, promoting their tools in hacking forums, stealing credit card information, and using typosquatting techniques to target open source software flaws.
Attackers are using the recently emerged browser-in-the-browser phishing technique to steal accounts from Valve's popular gaming platform, but it's a warning shot to businesses.
Attackers are already circling back to reselling stolen data instead of — and in addition to — extortion.
After a flat refusal to pay the ransom, Los Angeles Unified School District's stolen data has been dumped on the Dark Web by a ransomware gang.