Coverage of incidents reported as linked to Lapsus, including attribution analysis, infrastructure, disruption efforts, and defensive guidance.
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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.
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. [...]
The City of London Police on Friday disclosed that it has charged two of the seven teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, who were arrested last week for their alleged connections to the LAPSUS$ data extortion gang
Two teenagers arrested as part of police probe into extortion group British police have charged two teenagers as part of an international investigation into the Lapsus$ cyber extortion gang.…
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. [...]
Probing the activities of cloud-based cryptocurrency-mining groups, and Lapsus$ ‘back from vacation’
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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. [...]
Lapsus$ added IT giant Globant plus 70GB of leaked data – including admin credentials for scads of customers' DevOps platforms – to its hit list.
The LAPSUS$ data extortion gang announced their return on Telegram after a week-long "vacation," leaking what they claim is data from software services company Globant
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
"We made a mistake," Okta said, owning up to its responsibility for security incidents that hit its service providers and potentially its own customers.
Changes story again to say customers weren't in danger, admits it waited for incident report instead of asking tough questions Identity-management-as-a-service outfit Okta has acknowledged that it made an important mistake in its handling of the attack on a supplier by extortion gang Lapsus$.…
Okta has admitted that it made a mistake delaying the disclosure hack from the Lapsus$ data extortion group that took place in January. Additionally, the company has provided a detailed timeline of the incident and its investigation activities. [...]