Tag: Theft

June 21, 2022

Remember the Capital One breach? We did, though we felt sure it had happened a long time ago. Indeed, when we checked, it had: the story first broke almost three years ago, back in July 2019. At the time, the […]

October 27, 2020

A hacker has stolen approximately $24 million worth of cryptocurrency assets from decentralized finance service Harvest Finance, a web portal that lets users finding the farming opportunities that will maximize their yield(APY) returns. The hack took place earlier today and […]

June 27, 2019

An operation conducted by European law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of 6 individuals involved in a €24 million ($27.2 million) cryptocurrency theft. The group of cyber criminals is composed of five men and one woman, they were arrested […]

January 24, 2019

Every company – big or small – wants to avoid a data breach. Most efforts are placed on protecting the environment from external threat actors and cyber-criminal organizations attempting to get in. But, according to Shred-It’s 2018 State of the […]

July 6, 2018

A former employee of Israel-based cyber arms dealer NSO Group has been accused of stealing spyware source code from the company and attempting to sell it for $50 million, Israel’s Justice Ministry announced this week. The suspect has not been […]

May 14, 2018

Marketing, PR, and advertising firms are among those being targeted. A low-volume data-stealing campaign with the potential to get much bigger has begun targeting retail and manufacturing companies and also a select list of marketing, advertising, and public relations firms. […]

April 20, 2018

Credential theft and abuse have long been a nagging problem for local network administrators. The threat surface ranges from pretexting scams to insiders who abuse network privileges in order to grant themselves higher permissions than otherwise assigned. Here at RSA […]

July 20, 2017

Another day, another cryptocurrency heist: this time, the attacker has stolen some $30 million in ether (ETH – value token of the Ethereum blockchain) from a number of vulnerable multisig Parity Wallets. The attack and the current situation The zero-day […]

October 7, 2016

The FBI has arrested a U.S. government contractor for allegedly stealing classified documents, possibly including hacking tools. Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, has been charged with stealing government materials, including top secret information, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday. […]

September 12, 2016

Most users lock their computer screens when they temporarily step away from them. While this seems like a good security measure, it isn’t good enough, a researcher demonstrated this week. Rob Fuller, principal security engineer at R5 Industries, found out […]

August 16, 2016

While some ransomware (i.e. Chimera) give bogus threats about stealing and releasing private files, there are other malware families that in fact have made this possibility a reality. Recently, Bleeping Computer published a short article about an unrecognized Trojan that grabs documents from […]

June 15, 2016

A hacking group affiliated with the Russian government has infiltrated the Democratic National Committee (DNC), stealing two files of opposition research on presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. The hackers were highly skilled and able to bypass normal security protections. They […]

June 10, 2016

Everyone likes Twitter. Well, okay, maybe not everyone, but at least 310 million users visit the microblogging platform monthly. And now these 310 million have to consider changing their Twitter password. This is not because they are as insecure as […]

May 6, 2016

Tens of millions of stolen credentials for Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo email accounts are being shared online by a young Russian hacker known as “the Collector” as part of a supposed larger trove of 1.17 billion records. That’s according to […]

April 6, 2016

In smaller organizations—maybe less than 100 people or so—it’s quite common to hear “we know our people, we can trust them.” I like to ask the folks who are invested in trust as a security strategy a question:  “Are all […]

March 28, 2016

Verizon is in the process of notifying customers of its Enterprise Solutions division that their data has been breached. The news comes a few days after a treasure trove of information on 1.5 million Verizon Enterprise customers reportedly made its […]

February 17, 2016

Dridex is mainly used to steal banking credentials. The malware is configured to target the customers of nearly 300 different organizations in over 40 regions. Dridex is heavily focused on customers of financial institutions in wealthy, English-speaking countries, with the […]

January 26, 2016

Anyone who kept up with cyber-security news in 2015 already knows it was a big year for malware and the cyber-criminal gangs that develop it. Malware sophistication reached new heights with Dyre, Shifu and other gang-owned codes, revealing that the […]

December 30, 2015

This year has seen some major cyber-security breach cases that brought to the general attention the fact that nobody is generically safe. From private companies to government agencies, cyber-attacks threaten all entities that handle sensitive data. Taking into consideration the […]

November 27, 2015

Big Data is the current buzzword in the technology sector, but in fields such as security it is much more than this – businesses are starting to bet strongly on the implementation of tools based on the collection and analyzing […]