The legal vice is tightening around Lapsus$, the group of hackers who managed to hack tech giants like Nvidia, Samsung, Microsoft or Okta.
According to BBCCity of London police said they arrested seven people aged between 16 and 21 “in connection with an investigation into a group of hackers”. Still according to the British media, this group would be none other than Lapsus$, even if the police have not officially confirmed it. Those arrested have since been released, but remain under judicial supervision.
On Telegram, messages are now flowing in droves. The last message posted by the Lapsus$ hackers in their news feed announced that they were going on vacation. For users, we must now rather speak of a departure to prison: “RIP Lapsus$”, “Holidays… in prison lol”, “these holidays are likely to be long”… can we read among the more than 800 comments.
Yesterday, Bloomberg had previously revealed that the gang’s mastermind was likely a 16 or 17-year-old boy living with his mother near Oxford, England.
Asked by KrebsOnSecurity, the security researcher, Allison Nixon, was already on the trail of this hacker even before the creation of the Lapsus$ group. His cybercriminal activities were diverse: hacking, extortion, buying and selling zero-day vulnerabilities. They would have allowed him to amass a fortune of nearly 300 bitcoins, the equivalent of 12 million euros. In any case, this is what rival hackers say, who disclosed a whole set of personal information about him on the Web last January. Decidedly, the universe of pirates is ruthless.
Sources : BBC, KrebsOnSecurity