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.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is notifying employees whose data was stolen from the company's Office 365 email environment by Russian state-sponsored hackers in a May 2023 cyberattack. [...]
OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries Kaspersky eggheads say they’ve spotted the first app containing hidden optical character recognition spyware in Apple’s App Store. Cunningly, the software nasty is designed to steal cryptocurrency.…
Fourth time’s the harm? Gravy Analytics has been sued yet again for allegedly failing to safeguard its vast stores of personal data, which are now feared stolen. And by personal data we mean information including the locations of tens of millions of smartphones, coordinates of which were ultimately harvested from installed apps.…
CISA and the FDA are warning that Contec CMS8000 and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors are open to meddling and data theft; Claroty Team82 flagged the vulnerability as an avoidable insecure design issue.
Also: Conviction in £1.5M Fraud, Sentencing in Torture and Theft CaseThis week's stories include a critical Ethereum vulnerability, conviction in a £1.5M fraud, sentencing in a torture and crypto theft case, SEC's new roadmap, Jan crypto stats, Coinbase social engineering victims, and U.S. lawmakers' digital assets working group.
A new malware campaign dubbed SparkCat has leveraged a suit of bogus apps on both Apple's and Google's respective app stores to steal victims' mnemonic phrases associated with cryptocurrency wallets. The attacks leverage an optical character recognition (OCR) model to exfiltrate select images containing wallet recovery phrases from photo libraries to a command-and-control (C2) server,
The North Korea-linked nation-state hacking group known as Kimsuky has been observed conducting spear-phishing attacks to deliver an information stealer malware named forceCopy, according to new findings from the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC)
A help desk phishing campaign targets an organization's Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) using spoofed login pages to steal credentials and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) protections. [...]
Indian banking malware attack exposes 50,000 users, stealing financial data via SMS interception and phishing
Mountain View clocked onto the scheme with days to spare A Chinese national faces a substantial stint in prison and heavy fines if found guilty of several additional charges related to economic espionage and theft of trade secrets at Google.…
Researchers measured a threefold increase in credential stealing between 2023 and 2024, with more than 11.3 million such thefts last year.
A new campaign dubbed 'SparkCat' has been uncovered, targeting the cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases of Android and iOS users using optical character recognition (OCR) stealers. [...]
A new campaign dubbed 'SparkCat' has been uncovered, targeting the cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases of Android and iOS users using optical character recognition (OCR) stealers. [...]
Espionage and Cybercrime Campaign Tied to 7-Zip Mark-of-the-Web Bypass HitsRussian hackers targeting Ukrainian government agencies and businesses - including a major automotive manufacturer - have been targeting a zero-day vulnerability in the open source and widely used 7-Zip archive utility, to infect systems with credential-stealing SmokeLoader malware.
The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled, English-language cybercrime forums with millions of users that trafficked in stolen data, hacking tools and malware. An investigation into the history of these communities shows their apparent co-founders quite openly operate an Internet service provider and a pair of e-commerce platforms catering to buyers and sellers on both forums.
Check Point Research has found over 10 million stolen credentials associated with EMEA organizations exposed on cybercrime markets
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability impacting the Microsoft SharePoint connector on Power Platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors to harvest a user's credentials and stage follow-on attacks
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Canadian man with stealing roughly $65 million after exploiting two decentralized finance (DeFI) protocols. [...]
Casio UK's e-shop at casio.co.uk was hacked to include malicious scripts that stole credit card and customer information between January 14 and 24, 2025. [...]
Hackers hijack high-profile X accounts with phishing scams to steal credentials and promote fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes