Inside the Stealer Log Gold Rush: How Credential Theft Became the Cybercrime Industry’s Billion-Row Engine

Inside the Stealer Log Gold Rush: How Credential Theft Became the Cybercrime Industry’s Billion-Row Engine

In today’s cybercrime economy, few assets are as lucrative or as scalable as the humble stealer log.Born from infections by lightweight infostealer malware, these files are now the backbone of a sprawling underground market that thrives on hijacked credentials, browser cookies, and crypto wallet keys. Once dismissed as commodity threats, stealer logs are now driving ransomware attacks, identity fraud, and full-scale corporate breaches at an indu…