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230:. The Ministry of Health website was taken down on Friday, 10 December around 1 AM. Lapsus$ left a message, "Contact us if you want your data back", along with their Telegram and e-mail addresses on the homepage of the website of the ministry after exfiltrating and deleting 50 TB of data on internal servers. By Friday afternoon the message had been removed, but the website and user data in the "ConecteSUS" app, which provides Brazilians with COVID vaccination certificates, remained unavailable, causing disruption for travelers. 209:, with subsequent arrests again by City of London Police, and Brazilian police. The group appears to have become inactive after September 2022, with members perhaps dispersing to other groups, and the conviction of two British members. One of the group's founding members, Arion Kurtaj, was given an order to indefinitely remain in a secure 496:
were reported to have identified him. The prominent member was charged alongside a 17-year-old on 1 April 2022. He was assessed by psychiatrists as unfit to stand trial, but a 7-week court case proceeded until August 2023, and resulted in both the 17-year old and the prominent member being convicted.
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announced that it had made seven arrests in connection to a police investigation into Lapsus$ . Although the group had been considered inactive by April 2022, the group is believed to have re-emerged in September 2022 with a series of data breaches against various large companies through a similar
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through the compromised account of a third-party customer support engineer. Okta confirmed the breach on 25 January 2022. Based on the final forensic report, Okta's Chief Security Officer David Bradbury said the attack only impacted two active customers. Okta began investigating claims of a hack
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and subsequently accused of the attacks on the Brazil Ministry of Health and other cybercrimes after "Operation Dark Cloud". Lapsus$ also targeted dozens of other organizations and entities from the Brazilian Federal Government, including the Ministry of Economy, the Comptroller General of the
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became aware of a breach into its systems. Lapsus$ claimed to have a terabyte of data from Nvidia, and threatened to release the "complete silicon, graphics, and computer chipset files for all recent NVIDIA GPUs, including the RTX 3090Ti and upcoming revisions" if Nvidia didn't open-source its
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or network access to obtain sensitive data, such as customer account details or source code. The group then extorted the victim organisation with threats of disclosing the data. In the conspicuous cases, the data was then subsequently released, and information posted on Telegram.
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was based on obtaining access to a victim organisation's corporate network by acquiring credentials from privileged employees. These credentials were acquired in a number of ways, including recruitment or hacking privileged employees using methods such as
449:, and the Lapsus$ Telegram channel was used to announce data dumps and to recruit accomplices. As of March 2022, it has nearly 50,000 subscribers. The group posted polls as to which organisation the group should target next. 415:. The hacker is thought to have been affiliated with Lapsus$ . On 25 December 2023, additional content obtained from the breach a year prior was reported to have been leaked, including game files for the planned follow-up to 169:, and targeting suppliers. Once the group has gained the credentials to a privileged employee within the target organisation, the group then attempts to obtain sensitive data through a variety of means, including using 2050: 243:
after Lapsus$ shared screenshots in a Telegram channel implying they had breached Okta's customer networks. Initially, Okta said that a Lapsus$ hacker obtained Remote Desktop (
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against companies and government agencies. The group was active in several countries, and has had its members arrested in Brazil and the UK in 2022. According to
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channel. The following day, the group released a 37 GB zip file containing, among other things, "90% of the source code for the
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confirmed that user data for 300,000 customers had been accessed by Lapsus$ ; the group also claimed to have access to 24,000
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in connection to a police investigation into Lapsus$ . Arion Kurtaj, a prominent member of the group with the pseudonym
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had been used for communications to the public, including recruitment and posting sensitive data from their victims.
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On 17 March 2022, Lapsus$ had gained access to an employee account within the telecommunications company
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confirmed that it had experienced a "cyber security incident", although user data had not been accessed.
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On 21 January 2022, Lapsus$ had gained access into the servers of identity and access management company
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On October 19, 2022, a Brazilian citizen believed to be a Lapsus$ member was arrested by the police in
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According to the indictment, the group's mastermind was Arion Kurtaj, a 16-year-old residing in
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report stated that the group has seven members and was likely formed recently.
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Union, and the Federal Highway Police. The data appears permanently deleted.
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was arrested in Oxford, England. His identity had allegedly previously been
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On 24 March 2022, seven people aged between 16 and 21 were arrested by the
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On 20 March 2022, Lapsus$ posted a screenshot of the technology company
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The first known cyberattack committed by Lapsus$ was against Brazil's
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The methods used by Lapsus$ were the subject of a review by the US
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by a former associate, and various groups including research group
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The first major cyberattack attributed to Lapsus$ was against the
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tools. Attempts at extortion follow. Initially, the messaging app
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Clark, Mitchell; Lawler, Richard; Peters, Jay (22 March 2022).
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line of phones. Samsung confirmed the breach three days later.
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Kurtaj received an order to indefinitely remain in a secure
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On 18 September 2022, 90 videos of game footage relating to
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to Grand Theft Auto V, which included hints about planned
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confirmed its network had been breached by Lapsus$ .
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Lapsus$ uses a variety of attack vectors, including
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Turton, William; Robertson, Jordan (23 March 2022).
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US Government Cyber Safety Review Board. 2340: 1870:Health Service Executive ransomware attack 1798: 1755: 1741: 1733: 1575:(in Brazilian Portuguese), 19 October 2022 546:multi-factor authentication fatigue attack 276:On 4 March 2022, Lapsus$ posted a 190 GB 20: 625: 623: 221: 824: 822: 684: 682: 680: 678: 259:On 23 February 2022, technology company 2426:Internet properties established in 2021 1860:Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure data breach 751: 749: 747: 563: 1339:Armughanuddin, Md (25 December 2023). 1320:from the original on 19 September 2022 1283:from the original on 19 September 2022 2041:Ukrainian cyberattacks against Russia 1819:European Medicines Agency data breach 1669:Whittaker, Zack (19 September 2022). 1618:Paganini, Pierluigi (11 March 2022). 1474: 1472: 853: 851: 251:" between January 16 and January 21. 7: 1671:"How do you stop another Uber hack?" 1302:Robinson, Andy (19 September 2022). 2036:Change Healthcare ransomware attack 1865:Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack 876:Mari, Angelica (10 December 2021), 706:from the original on 10 August 2023 334:United States Department of Defense 284:, including the source code of its 1593:Gatlan, Sergiu (19 October 2022), 1365:Newman, Lily Hay (15 March 2022). 1265:Kan, Michael (20 September 2022). 1187:Newman, Lily Hay (22 March 2022). 929:Newman, Lily Hay (28 March 2022). 222:Brazil's Ministry of Health (2021) 14: 445:The group used the messaging app 312:On 10 March 2022, gaming company 1855:Microsoft Exchange Server breach 1000:Glover, Claudia (7 March 2022). 955:Clark, Mitchell (1 March 2022). 725:Goodin, Dan (18 November 2023). 2061:IRLeaks attack on Iranian banks 1391:. 21 March 2022. 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Index

Cybercrime
Spearphishing
SIM swapping
extortion
hacking
Microsoft
extortion
hacker group
cyberattacks
City of London Police
social engineering
MFA fatigue
SIM swapping
remote desktop
Telegram
Brazilian Health Ministry
Microsoft
Nvidia
Samsung
City of London Police
Uber
Rockstar Games
psychiatric facility
Ministry of Health
Okta
RDP
Nvidia
device drivers
torrent
Samsung

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