Theft in cybersecurity covers stolen data, credentials, devices, and funds, often creating risks of unauthorized access, fraud, and privacy loss.
Search across headline titles and summaries.
Background for this topic.
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.
A threat actor named WhiteCobra has targeting VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf users by planting 24 malicious extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace and the Open VSX registry. [...]
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a flash alert to release indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with two cybercriminal groups tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395 for a string of data theft and extortion attacks
Vastaamo Hacker Aleksanteri Kivimäki Is Free, For NowA Helsinki court ordered the release of Finland's most notorious hacker pending the resolution of his appeal of a conviction stemming from the theft of psychotherapy records of 33,000 individuals. Aleksanteri Kivimäki was convicted last year for hacking into now-defunct psychotherapy chain Vastaamo.
A Tennessee court has sentenced a Memphis man who worked for a DVD and Blu-ray manufacturing and distribution company to 57 months in prison for stealing and selling digital copies of unreleased movies. [...]
Okta uncovers new phishing-as-a-service operation with 'multiple entities' falling victim Multiple attackers using a new phishing service dubbed VoidProxy to target organizations' Microsoft and Google accounts have successfully stolen users' credentials, multi-factor authentication codes, and session tokens in real time, according to security researchers.…
Bitdefender said the sophisticated multi-stage operation allowed attackers to maintain persistent access and steal sensitive data from a Philippines military company
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new campaigns that are serving fake browser extensions using malicious ads and fake websites to steal sensitive data
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that leverages ConnectWise ScreenConnect, a legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software, to deliver a fleshless loader that drops a remote access trojan (RAT) called AsyncRAT to steal sensitive data from compromised hosts
Combining AI-generated code and social engineering, EvilAI operators are executing a rapidly expanding campaign, disguising their malware as legitimate applications to bypass security, steal credentials, and persistently compromise organizations worldwide.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) confirmed today that attackers also stole "some data" during a recent cyberattack that forced it to shut down systems and instruct staff not to report to work. [...]
Attacker Socially Engineered Developer With Phishing EmailA hacker laced 18 popular npm packages with cryptocurrency stealing malware after socially engineering the developer into giving up his credentials to the JavaScript runtime environment. Aikido Security said the 18 software packages collectively have downloads of more than two billion each week.
A House select committee said Chinese actors impersonated Representative John Moolenaar to steal information that could be used to influence trade talks
Media streaming platform Plex is warning customers to reset passwords after suffering a data breach in which a hacker was able to steal customer authentication data from one of its databases. [...]
At least 18 popular JavaScript code packages that are collectively downloaded more than two billion times each week were briefly compromised with malicious software today, after a developer involved in maintaining the projects was phished. The attack appears to have been quickly contained and was narrowly focused on stealing cryptocurrency. But experts warn that a similar attack with a slightly more nefarious payload could quickly lead to a disruptive malware outbreak that is far more difficult to detect and restrain.
Nonprofit Is Among Several Blood Suppliers Hit by Cybercriminals Over the Past YearNew York Blood Center Enterprises said an undisclosed number of patients, employees and other individuals are potentially affected by a January cyberattack that compromised personal and health related information. The hack was among several attacks on blood suppliers over the past year.
Salesloft Says Hackers Broke Into Its GitHub RepositoryCybersecurity firms Tenable and Qualys fell to attacks stemming from hacker theft of authentication tokens from a third-party tool often integrated into Salesforce. The firms disclosed their exposure to the attack that lifted access tokens from marketing-as-a-service software provider Salesloft.
The breach kickstarted a massive supply chain attack that led to the compromise of hundreds of Salesforce instances through stolen OAuth tokens.
A new supply chain attack on GitHub, dubbed 'GhostAction,' has compromised 3,325 secrets, including PyPI, npm, DockerHub, GitHub tokens, Cloudflare, and AWS keys. [...]
Salesloft says attackers first breached its GitHub account in March, leading to the theft of Drift OAuth tokens later used in widespread Salesforce data theft attacks in August. [...]