Recently, we shared with you the news that many leading companies in the industry such as Samsung, NVIDIA, Vodafone, Microsoft were hacked. A single group claimed responsibility for all these cyber attacks, which inflicted huge data losses on companies.
In the wake of worldwide cyberattacks by the group that calls themselves Lapsus$, London police recently arrested a 16-year-old Korean boy whom they consider their ‘leader’. However, Lapsus$ still continues to come up with the news of cyber attacks. The group has claimed responsibility for some of the cyber attacks.
German GSM company T-Mobile, also hacked by Lapsus$
T-Mobile, one of the largest GSM operators in Germany, gave a big deal last month. cyber attack was carried out. However, until now, no information about the people who carried out the attack has been disclosed. According to The Verge’s report, T-Mobile was the last target of the group just before the 7 young members of Lapsus$ were arrested recently. In the attack, which was announced to be aimed at the employees of the GSM operator, Lapsus$ was planning to seize mobile phones and personal information via SIM cards.
In this attack, which was carried out using the SIM swapping method, the members of the group were able to access all the notifications, calls and messages sent to the phones by infiltrating the numbers stored in the system. Although T-Mobile managed to prevent further losses by noticing this leak in the system in a short time, the attackers had already gained access to some data. Regarding the data losses, the company made a statement today and sprinkled water on its users and stated that the accessed system information does not contain any customer or government information.
Lapsus$ also tried to hack the FBI
After the attack, which T-Mobile survived without great losses, the FBI became one of the last targets of the group. Allegedly, Lapsus$ made some attempts to gain access to the system containing the FBI’s monitoring tools and operational tool software. According to The Verge’s report, the FBI detected this malware in their systems in a very short time, and the compromised credentials were invalidated immediately after the intrusion permission was detected.
The FBI states that their systems are working as expected and they are promptly alerted regarding malware. In the scenario where the software cannot be detected immediately, it is foreseen that the losses may be much larger and it may become unavoidable. Of course, it is quite interesting that Lapsus$, who not only annoys the companies, has the courage to attack the FBI.
It remains unknown how many members of the group still have not been arrested and how many cyber attacks they have carried out. However, the situation has become such that Lapsus$ is the bottom of almost every cyber attack news we come across.
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