Tag: theft
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Vercel Traces Customer Data Theft to Agentic AI Tool Breach
Attacker First Compromised AI Tool Used by Vercel Employee, Platform Provider Finds. Cloud platform provider Vercel said an attacker breached its systems and stole customer data after compromising a third-party agentic artificial intelligence tool used by an employee, called Context.ai, and stealing from it credentials and OAuth tokens tied to multiple services and customers. First…
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Crypto infrastructure company blames $290 million theft on North Korean hackers
A theft of nearly $300 million worth of cryptocurrency has been attributed to hackers from North Korea, as the industry grapples with the fallout of a wide-ranging incident involving multiple prominent platforms. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/crypto-north-korea-theft-kelp
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British Scattered Spider hacker pleads guilty to crypto theft charges
A British man, believed to be the leader of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective, has pleaded guilty in the United States to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/british-scattered-spider-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-crypto-theft-charges/
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Crypto Exchange Grinex Blames Western Spies for $13m Theft
Russian crypto-exchange Grinex claims Western intelligence agencies were behind a $13m heist First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crypto-exchange-grinex-western/
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Crypto Exchange Grinex Blames Western Spies for $13m Theft
Russian crypto-exchange Grinex claims Western intelligence agencies were behind a $13m heist First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/crypto-exchange-grinex-western/
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British Hacker Admits Stealing Millions in Virtual Currency From Targeted Companies
A 24-year-old British national, Tyler Robert Buchanan, has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive cyberattack campaign that compromised over a dozen U.S. companies and resulted in the theft of at least $8 million in cryptocurrency. According to a Friday announcement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, the Scottish hacker admitted…
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QEMU Hijacked as Stealth Backdoor for Credential Theft, Ransomware
Attackers are increasingly abusing QEMU virtual machines to hide credential theft and ransomware staging inside “invisible” virtual environments, making detection and forensics significantly harder for defenders. QEMU is a legitimate open-source emulator and virtualizer that allows running full operating systems as virtual machines on a host. Threat actors are weaponizing this capability by running their…
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Cyber attacks fuel surge in cargo theft across logistics industry
Hackers infiltrate logistics firms to steal cargo and divert payments, cyberattacks are linked to organized crime and rising losses. Proofpoint researchers observed crooks targeting trucking and logistics companies, running coordinated remote access campaigns to steal cargo and divert payments. These attacks appear to be linked to organized crime. The findings highlight a growing trend of…
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$13.74M Hack Shuts Down Sanctioned Grinex Exchange After Intelligence Claims
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-incorporated cryptocurrency exchange sanctioned by the U.K. and the U.S. last year, said it’s suspending operations after it blamed Western intelligence agencies for a $13.74 million hack.The exchange said it fell victim to what it described as a large-scale cyber attack that bore hallmarks of foreign intelligence agency involvement. This attack led to…
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Scattered Spider Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Federal Court
Tyler Buchanan Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Identity Theft. A senior figure in the Scattered Spider cybercrime group pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft on Friday in US federal district court. The plea marks the conclusion of a digital…
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Weaponized CVE-2026-39987 Pushes Blockchain Backdoor Through Hugging Face
Tags: backdoor, blockchain, credentials, cve, cyber, exploit, infection, rce, remote-code-execution, theftAttackers are rapidly exploiting CVE-2026-39987 in the marimo Python notebook platform to deploy a new NKAbuse backdoor variant hosted on Hugging Face Spaces, turning AI/ML developer environments into high”‘value infection points. The campaign combines pre-auth RCE, credential theft, lateral movement to PostgreSQL and Redis, and a blockchain-based C2 channel that is difficult to monitor or…
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Hackers Deploy ATHR for Scalable AI-Driven Vishing and Credential Theft
Tags: ai, attack, automation, credentials, cyber, cybercrime, email, hacker, malicious, phishing, theftHackers are increasingly turning to telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD) to bypass traditional email security, and a new cybercrime platform called ATHR is accelerating this trend with AI-driven automation and integrated phishing capabilities. TOAD attacks rely on a simple but effective tactic: instead of embedding malicious links or attachments, attackers send benign-looking emails containing only a…
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Payouts King Emerges: New Ransomware Operation Tied to Ex-BlackBasta Members
Payouts King is emerging as a technically sophisticated ransomware operation believed to be run by former BlackBasta affiliates, reusing their social”‘engineering playbook while introducing hardened obfuscation and encryption routines. The group focuses on high”‘value data theft and selective encryption, leveraging strong cryptography and extensive evasion to stay ahead of antivirus and EDR tools. BlackBasta, itself…
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Cargo Hackers Hit Trucking Firms to Steal Physical Shipments
Hackers are increasingly breaking into trucking and freight companies to quietly hijack real-world cargo shipments, turning digital access into physical theft at scale. Researchers say organized crime rings are teaming up with cybercriminals to exploit the systems carriers and freight brokers use every day to book and dispatch loads. Cargo theft is already a multi”‘billion”‘dollar…
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Cargo thieving hackers running sophisticated remote access campaigns, researchers find
Losses from cargo theft in North America rose to $6.6 billion in 2025, driven largely by digital attacks, according to the fleet management company Geotab. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/cargo-thieving-hackers-running-sophisticated-campaigns
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Fake Ledger Live App on Apple Store Linked to $9.5M Crypto Theft
Apple approved a fake Ledger Live app on its App Store, allowing scammers to steal $9.5 million from more than 50 users. Did you install this app? First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fake-ledger-live-app-apple-store-crypto-theft/
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Cargo theft malware actor spent a month inside a decoy network before researchers pulled the plug
Proofpoint researchers executed a malicious payload from a threat actor known to target trucking and logistics companies in late February 2026, doing so inside a decoy … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/16/cargo-theft-malware-actor-decoy-network/
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Massive Chrome Extension Scam Exposes 20,000 Users to Data Theft
Researchers linked 108 malicious Chrome extensions to a coordinated campaign that exposed about 20,000 users to data theft, backdoors, and ad injection. The post Massive Chrome Extension Scam Exposes 20,000 Users to Data Theft appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-malicious-chrome-extensions-data-theft/
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UAC-0247 Hits Hospitals, Governments With Browser and WhatsApp Data Theft
A surge of targeted cyberattacks was detected against local governments and municipal healthcare institutions particularly clinical and ambulance hospitals. The campaign has been attributed to threat cluster UAC-0247, known for advanced data theft, persistence, and lateral movement methods. The attack chain begins with well-crafted phishing emails that appear to discuss humanitarian aid proposals. These emails typically…
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US, UK and Canada disrupt $45M crypto theft in Operation Atlantic
US, UK and Canada ran Operation Atlantic, uncovering $45M in crypto theft and freezing $12M to return to victims. An international law enforcement operation from the US, UK and Canada, codenamed Operation Atlantic, has targeted large-scale cryptocurrency theft schemes. Authorities identified more than $45 million in stolen digital assets and successfully froze around $12 million.…
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Q1 2026 Open Source Malware Index: Adaptive Attacks, Familiar Weaknesses
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, cloud, credentials, crypto, data, github, guide, intelligence, kubernetes, linux, macOS, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, tool, update, windows, worm<div cla TL;DR Sonatype identified 21,764 open source malware packages in Q1 2026, bringing the total logged since 2017 to 1,346,867. npm accounted for 75% of malicious packages this quarter. Trojans dominated, with most activity focused on credential theft, host reconnaissance, and staged payload delivery. The quarter’s defining pattern was trust abuse: attackers succeeded by…
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APT41 Targets Linux Cloud Servers With New Winnti Backdoor
A previously undocumented Linux backdoor attributed to China-linked threat group APT41 (Winnti) has been uncovered, targeting cloud workloads across AWS, GCP, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud. The ELF-based implant, currently showing zero detections on VirusTotal, transforms Linux servers into stealthy credential theft nodes using a novel SMTP-based command-and-control (C2) mechanism. The discovery indicates a new phase in APT41’s Linux and cloud-targeted…
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Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data
ShinyHunters claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/shinyhunters_rockstar_breach/
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Hacker group threatens to release Grand Theft Auto VI data in Rockstar Games attack
The group named ShinyHunters have accessed a third party server and have given the company a deadline of 14 April to enter ransom negotiations Rockstar Games, the studio behind Grand Theft Auto, has been the target of a cyberattack for the second time in three years. A hacker group called ShinyHunters said it would release…
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‘Grand Theft Auto’ publisher Rockstar hit by hackers again
The notorious ShinyHunters hacking collective menaces video game publisher Rockstar and says it will leak data on 14 April First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366641486/Grand-Theft-Auto-publisher-Rockstar-hit-by-hackers-again
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Critical flaw in Marimo Python notebook exploited within 10 hours of disclosure
Tags: access, advisory, ai, api, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, credentials, cve, data-breach, exploit, firewall, flaw, Internet, open-source, rce, remote-code-execution, software, theft, tool, update, vulnerabilityCredentials stolen in under three minutes: To track real-world exploitation, deployed honeypot servers running vulnerable Marimo instances across multiple cloud providers and observed the first exploitation attempt within 9 hours and 41 minutes of disclosure. No ready-made exploit tool existed at the time. The attacker had built one using only the advisory description, Sysdig researchers…
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Rockstar Games receives “pay or leak” warning after cyberattack
Rockstar Games, the developer behind titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has confirmed a cyberattack claimed by hacking group ShinyHunters, which says it … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/13/rockstar-games-data-breach-shinyhunters/
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Rockstar Games gets a taste of grand theft data amid ShinyHunters threat of ‘Pay or leak’
Gang claims it accessed Snowflake metrics via third-party tool First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/shinyhunters_rockstar_breach/