During the past month, some of the largest companies in the sector, such as Microsoft, Nvidia or Ubisoft, suffered major computer attacks that compromised sensitive information. For example, information about the design of NVidia GPUs and thousands of gigabytes of Microsoft code were leaked. Apparently, they would be the work of the same group of hackers, being the leader of the organization “a 16-year-old boy who lives at his mother’s house“.
Although the police have not formally charged anyone, “(private) investigators investigating the hacking group Lapsus$ on behalf of the companies that were attacked,” reports Bloomberg (via Kotaku). This group of hackers would be made up of a 16-year-old English boy who would be behind most of the attacks, a Brazilian teenager and seven other members who have not yet been identified.
As for the ringleader, the 16-year-old Englishman, investigators say it was so good that “they thought the activity they were observing was automated”. According to Microsoft, this group has been putting together a “large-scale social engineering and extortion campaign against multiple organizations” because they obtained “privileged information in the victim companies to help in their attacks”.
Apparently they used personal information of employees of these companies to sneak into Zoom calls, “where employees and consultants trying to clean up their piracy have been mocked.” The identification of the two young people known at the time would have been possible thanks to the fact that “the group suffers from poor operational security”say the researchers.
At the moment it seems that no legal action has been taken against anyone in particular, but this group of teenage hackers would have done quite a bit of damage in their attacks. It will cost the Nintendo Switch hacker 3 years in jail. The positive part is that the personal information of users of these companies would not have been affected, as has happened in other attacks.
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