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Lapsus$ is a threat actor or intrusion set associated in public reporting with high-profile compromises, theft of corporate data and source code, and extortion through threats to disclose stolen information. Attribution can be difficult because the name may encompass activity by multiple individuals, so reporting should distinguish confirmed facts from claims made by the group or by investigators.

The material security concern is the exposure of identity and support processes: reported incidents have involved social engineering, compromised employee accounts, and access to cloud or development environments. Defenders should enforce phishing-resistant multifactor authentication where possible, tightly control help-desk account recovery, monitor unusual sign-ins and session use, and limit access to repositories and sensitive stores. If an intrusion is suspected, promptly preserve authentication and cloud logs, revoke sessions, rotate credentials and tokens, determine what data was accessed or removed, and assess privacy and notification obligations.

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Krebs on Security 4 years, 3 months ago

The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. But few organizations have a playbook for responding to the kinds of virtual "smash and grab" attacks we've seen recently from LAPSUS$, a juvenile data extortion group whose short-lived, low-tech and remarkably effective tactics are putting some of the world's biggest corporations on edge.

Krebs on Security 7 Apr 2022, 5:55 a.m. Advanced Persistent Threat Breach Extortion Hacking Infection Lapsus LAPSUS$ Malware Nation State Playbook Ransomware