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Over the past month, many of the world’s largest tech companies, including Microsoft, Nvidia, Ubisoft, Samsung and Okta, have been hacked by a group known as Lapsus $. These are also not minor violations. Nvidia has lost its sensitive GPU design and lost important Microsoft gigabyte source code. Currently, it is reported that the “mastermind” behind the hack is a teenager who “lives in the mother’s house” in the United Kingdom.
According to a Bloomberg article, “researchers investigating the hacking group Lapsus $ on behalf of the attacked company” is a 16-year-old Englishman who is believed to be behind most, if not all, intrusions. I am focusing on the boy. These researchers are also investigating Brazilian teenagers and believe that the group has at least seven members, but if the details of other hackers are known, they are not disclosed.
The point here is that while private detectives have made this list of suspects, no one has been formally charged by the authorities. Nevertheless, the information shared by these cybersecurity researchers is very interesting.
- They believe that the main suspect, a 16-year-old from England, was so good that “researchers initially thought that the activities they were observing were automated.”
- According to Microsoft, the group running “Large-scale Social Engineering and Blackmail Campaigns Against Multiple Organizations” has had some success because it was able to hire insiders from victimized companies to assist in hacking. It is. ” “
- Outrageously, Lapsus $ members claim to be using compromised employee information to log in to the victim’s Zoom call.
Cybersecurity researchers were able to identify the two teens very quickly because “the group suffers from inadequate operational security” because of their all-attack capabilities. say.