Data Theft

A federal jury has convicted Linwei Ding, 38, a former Google software engineer, on charges of economic espionage and trade secret theft. The conviction stems from Ding's systematic theft of over 2,000 pages of confidential Google documentation on artificial intelligence...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has announced a lawsuit against the popular Chinese e-commerce retailer Temu, accusing the company of stealing vast amounts of customer data. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, positions Arizona alongside several other states taking legal action against...

A secrete investigation by Progressive International, Expose Accenture, and the Movement Research Unit, dubbed the "Accenture Files," has unveiled the pivotal role of Accenture, the world’s largest consultancy firm, in fueling a global surge toward surveillance, exclusion, and authoritarianism....

Threat actors are allegedly offering root access to Canon Inc.'s internal firewall systems on underground hacking forums.  According to security monitoring firm ThreatMon, the advertisement appeared on a popular dark web marketplace, claiming to provide administrator-level access to the Japanese...

A critical vulnerability in Google’s "Sign in with Google" authentication flow is putting millions of Americans at risk of data theft, particularly those who have worked for failed startups. The issue lies in how Google’s OAuth login system interacts...

The Green Bay Packers organization has disclosed a data breach affecting thousands of customers who made purchases on their official online store, packersproshop. The incident, attributed to malicious code planted by an unauthorized third party, compromised sensitive customer information, including...

Junior Barros De Oliveira, a 29-year-old resident of Curitiba, Brazil, has been indicted in the United States for orchestrating an extortion scheme involving data stolen from the computer systems of a Brazilian subsidiary of a New Jersey-based company. U.S....

Hackers target gambling games primarily due to the lucrative financial opportunities they present. The online gambling industry is a rich territory for threat actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities for "financial gain" and "data theft." Cybersecurity analysts at ASEC recently discovered...

Stealing personal data information ('name', 'Social Security number', 'credit card details', etc.) for fraudulent activities is dubbed "identity theft."  While these types of cybercrimes are often termed as "financial identity theft," "medical identity theft," and "criminal identity theft," each having...

Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) significantly lowers the technical barriers for threat actors to launch ransomware attacks, even it also enables threat actors with minimal skills to execute sophisticated cyber attacks. On a subscription basis, this model operates, and through this model, the...