Even after the arrests of two of its members, it appears that the hacker cybergang Lapsus $ keep hitting with new attacks. London police planned to end the attacks with the arrest of a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old and the recent arrest of seven gang members. Yet the hacking continues: the company is hit Globantwhich has clients like Facebook e Apple.
Lapsus $’s attacks continue even after members are arrested
Lapsus $ hackers have targeted some of the largest tech companies in the world. Samsung, Nvidia, Microsoft just to name a few. So much so that when Scotland Yard arrested seven gang members, all the experts were shocked to find that the oldest was only 21 years old.
Two of the teenagers, 16 e 17 years, they risk severe penalties. But that didn’t block the other members of the hacker group, quite the opposite. Last week, with seven members questioned by Scotland Yard, they struck again.
The latest victim of the attacks is Globant, a multinational IT and software development company. Which serves bulky customers like Facebook e Apple, to name more well-known. On the public Telegram group of Lapsus $ they communicated the attack, writing that they will exhibit “the credentials of the administrators for ALL underlying development platforms “. To then share a large number of passwords and well 70GB company internal data id.
Globant asserts that “the information referred to [gli hacker] have had access are limited to a restricted part of the source code and documentation concerning a very limited number of customers “. The company makes it clear that it is acting for analyze every possible risk. At the moment it is not clear which customers are involved: especially Apple and Facebook would be excellent victims.
It seems that the arrests haven’t slowed down the hackers at all. We will keep you updated on the development of the story.