Here’s what to do in a world where credential theft has been automated and turned into a commodity.
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64,000 accounts exposed in breach of GTA V cheat service Atlas Menu
Atlas Menu, a cheat service for Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike 2, has been added to the Have I Been Pwned database following a data breach that exposed tens of thousands of user records. The incident exposed approximately 64,000 accounts, including email addresses, usernames, IP addresses, support tickets, and passwords hashed with bcrypt. The…
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ShinyHunters hack 7-Eleven: franchisee data and Salesforce records exposed
7-Eleven confirmed a breach after ShinyHunters claimed theft of over 600,000 Salesforce records and franchisee data. 7-Eleven has confirmed a data breach after the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed it stole more than 600,000 Salesforce records containing personal and corporate information. “Over 600k Salesforce records containing PII and other internal corporate data have been compromised.” The…
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Critical ‘Claw Chain’ Vulnerabilities Put Thousands of OpenClaw AI Servers at Risk
Critical Claw Chain vulnerabilities in OpenClaw expose thousands of AI servers to data theft, backdoors, and admin-level attacks globally this week. .
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Cyber-Enabled Cargo Crime: How Cybercrime Tradecraft is Used to Steal Freight
Cargo theft now starts with phishing emails and stolen credentials, not hijackings, to reroute and steal freight from supply chains. NMFTA outlines how cyber-enabled cargo crime is changing transportation security. […]
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PCPJack Credential Stealer Exploits 5 CVEs to Spread Worm-Like Across Cloud Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new credential theft framework dubbed PCPJack that targets exposed cloud infrastructure and ousts any artifacts linked to TeamPCP from the environments. “The toolset harvests credentials from cloud, container, developer, productivity, and financial services, then exfiltrates the data through attacker-controlled infrastructure while attempting
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Microsoft Details Phishing Campaign Targeting 35,000 Users Across 26 Countries
Microsoft has disclosed details of a large-scale credential theft campaign that has leveraged a combination of code of conduct-themed lures and legitimate email services to direct users to attacker-controlled domains and steal authentication tokens. The multi-stage campaign, observed between April 14 and 16, 2026, targeted more than 35,000 users across over 13,000 organizations in 26…
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Digital attacks drive a new wave of cargo theft, FBI says
The FBI warns of rising cyber cargo theft, with hackers targeting brokers and carriers. Experts say digital attacks are replacing traditional cargo theft. The FBI has issued a Public Service Announcement (PSA) about a surge in cyber-enabled cargo theft, with hackers increasingly targeting brokers and carriers. This trend confirms earlier findings from Proofpoint and alerts…
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Medtronic discloses security incident after ShinyHunters claimed theft of 9M+ records
Medtronic confirmed a breach of its IT systems after ShinyHunters claimed the theft of over 9 million records. Medtronic confirmed a cyberattack on its corporate IT systems after the hacker group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen over 9 million records. The company did not share details on the security breach. Medtronic is an international medical…
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BlackFile Group Targets Retail and Hospitality with Vishing Attacks
Researchers uncover a new data theft and extortion group dubbed “BlackFile”
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North Korea’s Lazarus Targets macOS Users via ClickFix
Lazarus continues leveraging ClickFix for initial access and data theft, in this case, against Mac-centric organizations and their high-value leaders.
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$293M KelpDAO Crypto Heist Exposes Cross-Chain Weaknesses in DeFi
A $293 million cryptocurrency theft has rocked the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, with KelpDAO at the center of an attack now suspected to be linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group. The attack highlights how quickly sophisticated attackers can exploit weaknesses in cross-chain infrastructure. “Preliminary indicators suggest attribution to a highly sophisticated state actor, likely DPRK’s…
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North Korean Blamed for $290m KelpDAO Crypto Heist
North Korea’s Lazarus Group is pegged for a $290m crypto theft at KelpDAO
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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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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 accessed the company’s Snowflake environment and obtained data. The attackers exploited Anodot, a third-party SaaS platform used for cloud cost monitoring and analytics, as the entry point and…
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To counter cookie theft, Chrome ships device-bound session credentials
Cookie theft follows a well-established pattern. Infostealer malware infiltrates a device, extracts authentication cookies, and exfiltrates them to an attacker-controlled server. Because cookies often have extended lifetimes, attackers can access accounts without passwords, then bundle and sell the stolen credentials. Once malware gains access to a machine, it can read the local files and memory…
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Bitcoin Depot Reports $3.6m Crypto Theft After System Breach
Bitcoin Depot has disclosed a cyber-attack that led to the theft of more than 50 Bitcoin, worth $3.66m, after hackers accessed its internal systems
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Snowflake customers hit in data theft attacks after SaaS integrator breach
Over a dozen companies have suffered data theft attacks after a SaaS integration provider was breached and authentication tokens stolen. […]
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$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation
Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based decentralized exchange described it as “an attack six months in the
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CrystalX RAT: new MaaS malware combines spyware, stealer, and remote access
CrystalX RAT, a new sophisticated MaaS malware, combines spyware, data theft, and remote access, allowing attackers to monitor victims. In March 2026, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a Telegram-based campaign promoting a previously unknown malware sold as a MaaS with three subscription tiers. The Trojan offers a wide range of features, including RAT capabilities, data theft, keylogging,…
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New Phishing Platform Used in Credential Theft Campaigns Against C-Suite Execs
A large-scale credential theft campaign targeting senior executives has been linked to a previously unknown automated phishing platform called Venom
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Cybercriminals Exploit Tax Season With New Phishing Tactics
Tax-season phishing floods deliver RMM malware, credential theft, BEC and tax-form scams
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European Commission data stolen in a cyberattack on the infrastructure hosting its web sites
The European Commission is continuing to investigate the theft of data from its cloud infrastructure earlier this week. On Thursday, the Commission revealed there had been an attack on its Europa.eu platform, offering few details, then, on Friday, security news site Bleeping Computer reported that the attack had involved the compromise of an account or…
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PyPI warns developers after LiteLLM malware found stealing cloud and CI/CD credentials
PyPI is warning of possible credential theft from AI applications and developer pipelines after two malicious versions of the widely used Python middleware for large language models, LiteLLM, were briefly published. “Anyone who has installed and run the project should assume any credentials available to the LiteLLM environment may have been exposed, and revoke/rotate them…
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OVHcloud Founder Denies Massive 590TB Data Breach Claims
OVHcloud denies breach after hacker claims 600TB data theft affecting millions of sites, with experts doubting authenticity due to weak proof
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‘CanisterWorm’ Springs Wiper Attack Targeting Iran
A financially motivated data theft and extortion group is attempting to inject itself into the Iran war, unleashing a worm that spreads through poorly secured cloud services and wipes data on infected systems that use Iran’s time zone or have Farsi set as the default language. Experts say the wiper campaign against Iran materialized this…
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CISA orders feds to patch DarkSword iOS flaws exploited attacks
CISA ordered U.S. government agencies to patch three iOS vulnerabilities targeted in cryptocurrency theft and cyberespionage attacks using the DarkSword exploit kit. […]
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How to Protect Your Domain from Unauthorized Access
How to Protect Your Domain from Unauthorized Access Domain theft usually doesn’t look like a breach. No alarms or obvious defacement, one day your site loads fine, the next it points somewhere else. The domain is still yours on paper, but control has already shifted. A domain name ties together your website, email, and public…
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More Attackers Are Logging In, Not Breaking In
Credential theft soared in the second half of 2025, thanks in part to the industrialization of infostealer malware and AI-enabled social engineering.
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Storm-2561 Spreads Trojan VPN Clients via SEO Poisoning to Steal Credentials
Microsoft has disclosed details of a credential theft campaign that employs fake virtual private network (VPN) clients distributed through search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques. “The campaign redirects users searching for legitimate enterprise software to malicious ZIP files on attacker-controlled websites to deploy digitally signed trojans that masquerade as trusted VPN clients
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SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ally WordPress Plugin Exposes 200K+ Sites
SQL injection flaw in Ally WordPress plugin exposes 200,000+ sites to data theft. Patch released, but most installations remain unpatched and vulnerable.
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Coruna Exploit Kit Targets Older iPhones in Multi-Stage Campaigns
Exploit kit “Coruna” targets iPhones running iOS 13.0 to 17.2.1, focusing on financial data theft
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Untrusted repositories turn Claude code into an attack vector
Flaws in Anthropic’s Claude Code could allow remote code execution and theft of API keys when users open untrusted repositories. Check Point Research team found multiple vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code AI coding assistant that could lead to remote code execution and API key theft. The vulnerabilities abuse features such as Hooks, MCP servers, and…
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Infostealers Target OpenClaw AI Configuration Files
Infostealer malware is expanding beyond traditional browser and banking credential theft to target personal AI assistant environments. Researchers at Hudson Rock recently identified a live infection in which attackers exfiltrated a victim’s OpenClaw configuration files, including authentication tokens, cryptographic keys, and stored contextual data used by the AI agent. “While the malware may have been…
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VoidLink Malware Exhibits Multi-Cloud Capabilities and AI Code
VoidLink, a Linux-based C2 framework, facilitates credential theft, data exfiltration across clouds
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Flare Report: Infostealers Are Fueling Enterprise Identity Attacks
Once largely associated with consumer credential theft, infostealer malware is increasingly impacting enterprises. New research from Flare shows that a rising percentage of infections now expose enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) and identity provider credentials, creating direct risk for corporate systems, cloud environments, and SaaS platforms. “We’re seeing fewer infections overall, but far higher yield per…