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.
General Electric is investigating claims that a threat actor breached the company's development environment in a cyberattack and leaked allegedly stolen data. [...]
General Electric is investigating claims that a threat actor breached the company's development environment in a cyberattack and leaked allegedly stolen data. [...]
1.5 Million Customers' Details Stolen From Taj Hotel Chain, Attacker ClaimsHospitality giant Indian Hotels is probing the alleged theft of data from its systems after a criminal recently claimed they stole data pertaining to 1.5 million customers of the Taj hotel chain in 2020, which they're now advertising on a popular English-language cybercrime forum.
Also, Kansas Courts Say Ongoing Outage Traces to Attack; Confidential Data StolenThis week's data breach roundup: Chinese-affiliated hackers target the Philippine government; Kansas Courts confirm data theft, officials warn of exploited flaws in Sophos, Oracle and Microsoft software; AutoZone discloses a Clop ransomware attack; Optus' CEO resigns after network outage.
Supply Chain Attacks: Hackers Target Zero-Days in Widely Used Software, Alert WarnsNorth Korean state-affiliated hackers are continuing to exploit zero-days in popular software applications as part of global supply chain attack campaigns for espionage and financial theft purposes, British and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence officials said.
Also: Kronos Loses $25 Million via API Breach; Regulators Charge KrakenThis week's cryptocurrency hack roundup features hackers stealing $87 million from Heco, Kronos reporting $25 million stolen via an API breach, regulators filing charges against Kraken, feds charging three people with stealing $10 million as well as seizing $9 million tied to a pig butchering scam.
Not that we're encouraging anyone to defeat this fingerprint authentication Hardware security hackers have detailed how it's possible to bypass Windows Hello's fingerprint authentication and login as someone else – if you can steal or be left alone with a vulnerable device.…
Staff records swiped, leaked by gang who probably read one too many comics, sorry, graphic novels The self-described "gay furry hackers" of SiegedSec are back: this time boasting they've broken into America's biggest nuclear power lab's IT environment and stolen records on thousands of employees. Some of that data has already been leaked, it appears.…
A favorite post-exploitation tool continues to gain sophistication, with one recent example adding disguised log-in pages, credential stealing, and information gathering via services such as VirusTotal.
The Kansas Judicial Branch has published an update on a cybersecurity incident it suffered last month, confirming that hackers stole sensitive files containing confidential information from its systems. [...]
Healthcare SaaS provider Welltok is warning that a data breach exposed the personal data of nearly 8.5 million patients in the U.S. after a file transfer program used by the company was hacked in a data theft attack. [...]
Hacktivists Leak Sensitive Employee Information From Idaho National LaboratoryThe hacktivist group SiegedSec has taken responsibility for a massive data breach targeting Idaho National Laboratory, a leading nuclear energy testing lab. Concerns are now growing over what data was stolen from the laboratory - and who might have access to it.
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) confirms they suffered a cyberattack after 'SiegedSec' hacktivists leaked stolen human resources data online. [...]
Real-life impact of buggy software laid bare – plus: Avast tries to profit from being caught up in attacks Quick show of hands: whose data hasn't been stolen in the mass exploitation of Progress Software's vulnerable MOVEit file transfer application? Anyone?…
The Lumma information-stealing malware is now using an interesting tactic to evade detection by security software - the measuring of mouse movements using trigonometry to determine if the malware is running on a real machine or an antivirus sandbox. [...]
Crims post passport scans and internal forms up for 'auction' to prove it The Rhysida ransomware group says it's behind the highly disruptive October cyberattack on the British Library, leaking a snippet of stolen data in the process.…