The hacker group LAPSUS$ is known as the “ransomware” group, ie as a collective that steals important data from large companies in order to demand financial compensation for the return of the same data.
This hacker group has gained public attention recently with several intrusions into the systems of serious companies, such as Nvidia, Samsung, and Ubisoft.
The first target of these hackers was Nvidia, which tried to repay the LAPSUS$ group in the same way by attacking them with its version of “ransomware” software. However, the attack was unsuccessful and the source code that Nvidia’s intellectual property appeared on the Internet, after which the company confirmed that LAPSUS $ stole their data. This 20GB of data also contained sensitive data on the company’s employees, as well as certificates related to code security. For now, these hackers claim to possess 1TB of data they stole from Nvidia.
The requirement that LAPSUS$ has for Nvidia is that all drivers that Nvidia publishes are based on open source, ie to be “open source”. For now, April 4, the date that LAPSUS$ set as the endpoint after which it will publish the entire 1TB of data has passed, so it remains questionable whether they have just that amount of data with them.
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Just a few weeks ago, Samsung suffered a hacker attack that stole the source code for Galaxy devices. LAPSUS$ stole and posted 204GB of Samsung data on the Internet.
But that’s not the end of it, so it seems that this hacker group has decided to continue targeting the largest companies on the planet. According to HotHardware, just two days ago, LAPSUS$ released a screenshot in its Telegram group that appears to be from Microsoft’s internal DevOps platform. So, it can be concluded that LAPSUS$ used the data stolen from Nvidia in order to successfully break into Microsoft.
However, the hacker group LAPSUS$ deleted the image from the Telegram group, stating that it will be re-posted in the next period of time. At the moment, the picture is still not returned to the group, but it seems that these hackers are not joking. Megacorporations certainly need an occasional mess, but stealing confidential user data is something where the line needs to be drawn because what is a lot is a lot. Not everyone is Robin Hood.
