Cyber chronicle, 20.10.2022, 09:30 AM
Federal police in Brazil announced that they arrested an alleged member of the notorious hacking group Lapsus$ in the Brazilian city of Feira de Santana.
In less than a year, the Lapsus$ group gained worldwide fame by attacking the MicrosoftCisco, Samsung, NVIDIA, Okta, Ubisoft, Globant, T-Mobile, Mercado Libre and Vodafone. The group’s first attacks were primarily aimed at Brazilian and other South American institutions, before the group refocused on companies in Europe and the US.
The group was known for its unpredictable behavior and for bragging to the public about the attacks it carried out.
The arrest in Brazil is part of Operation Dark Cloud, which was launched in August 2022, according to a police statement.
Not much is known about the suspect arrested this week except that he may be a teenager.
Brazilian police said they began an investigation in December 2021 after an attack on the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s websites resulted in the theft of 50TB of data, and Covid-19 vaccination data was unavailable for some time after the attack due to “compromise of the Conectusus website. saude.gov.br, responsible for the national vaccination certificate,” explained the federal police
The portals of the Brazilian Ministry of Economy, the Federal Road Police and the Comptroller General of the Union were also targeted by the Lapsus$ group.
Israeli cyber security company Check Point described Lapsus$ as a “Portuguese hacking group from Brazil”. “The true motivation of the group is still unclear, even if it claims to be purely financially motivated,” the Israeli company said at the time. “Lapsus$ has a strong engagement with their followers, even posting interactive polls on who should be their next unfortunate target.”
The London police are arrested at the end of March seven people from Great Britain, aged 16 to 21, after which she accused two minors for breaking into computer systems and stealing data. Last month, London police arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire, who is said to be the leader of Lapsus$, in connection with cyber attacks on Uber and Rockstar Games.
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