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Carmaker Resumes Full ProductionThe September cyberattack on Jaguar Land Rover resulted in a company loss of roughly $260 million, the British carmaker reported Friday while also announcing a resumption of normal production. Cybercrime group "Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters" took responsibility for the hack.
Though the groups have shared their decision to go dark, threat researchers say there are signs that it's business as usual.
Also, Disney Pays $10M to Settle Child Privacy Case, Spain Scraps Huawei DealThis week, Jaguar hack, Disney settled a child privacy case, Texas sued PowerSchool and federal prosecutors sued a toy maker. Spain voided a Huawei contract, Pennsylvania AG confirmed a ransomware attack. U.S. immigration enforcement resumed a spyware contract and Baltimore lost $1.5 million to BEC.
The source code for Grand Theft Auto 5 was reportedly leaked on Christmas Eve, a little over a year after the Lapsus$ threat actors hacked Rockstar games and stole corporate data. [...]
A London jury has found that an 18-year-old member of the Lapsus$ data extortion gang helped hack multiple high-profile companies, stole data from them, and demanded a ransom threatening to leak the information. [...]
Businesses need to educate employees the type of social engineering attacks used by hacking group DEV-0537 (LAPSUS$) and strengthen their security posture.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board will review attacks linked to an extortion group known as Lapsus$, which breached multiple high-profile companies in recent attacks. [...]
The Federal Police of Brazil on Wednesday announced it had arrested an individual for purported links to the notorious LAPSUS$ extortionist gang
Today, the Brazilian Federal Police arrested a Brazilian suspect in the city of Feira de Santana, Bahia, believed to be part of the Lapsus$ extortion gang. [...]
The threat actor ‘teapotuberhacker’ could be linked to the Lapsus$ hacking group
Uber on Monday disclosed more details related to the security incident that happened last week, pinning the attack on a threat actor it believes is affiliated to the notorious LAPSUS$ hacking group
The ride-sharing giant says a member of the notorious Lapsus$ hacking group started the attack by compromising an external contractor's credentials, as researchers parse the incident for takeaways.
Uber believes the hacker behind last week's breach is affiliated with the Lapsus$ extortion group, known for breaching other high-profile tech companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, Samsung, and Okta. [...]
The LAPSUS$ group emerged with a big splash at the end of 2021, targeting companies, including Okta, with a "reckless and disruptive" approach to hacking.
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$, a juvenile data extortion group whose short-lived, low-tech and remarkably effective tactics are putting some of the world's biggest corporations on edge.
Two teenagers from the UK charged with helping the Lapsus$ extortion gang have been released on bail after appearing in the Highbury Corner Magistrates Court court on Friday morning. [...]
Okta's outsourced provider of support services, Sitel (Sykes) has shared more information this week in response to the leaked documents that detailed the various incident response tasks carried out by Sitel after the Lapsus$ hack. [...]
IT and software consultancy firm Globant has confirmed that they were breached by the Lapsus$ data extortion group, where data consisting of administrator credentials and source code was leaked by the threat actors. [...]
Meanwhile, Okta squirms as further details of slow hack response emerge Extortion gang Lapsus$ may to be back at work, despite the arrest of seven alleged operatives.…
An independent security researcher has shared what's a detailed timeline of events that transpired as the notorious LAPSUS$ extortion gang broke into a third-party provider linked to the cyber incident at Okta in late January 2022