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March 24, 2022
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In news– Microsoft has recently published a detailed cybersecurity blog confirming that its systems were breached by the hacker group Lapsus$.

What is Lapsus$?

  • South America-based Lapsus$ is known for publicly posting details about their hacks and sharing screenshots of stolen data on platforms such as Telegram and Twitter.
  • It is a hacker group that has targeted Microsoft, Samsung, Okta and Nvidia. 
  • They are also known for hijacking cryptocurrency accounts.
  • The group has been given the designation DEV-0537 by Microsoft’s cybersecurity researchers, has been expanding the geographic range of its targets and going after government organizations as well as the tech, telecom and health-care sectors, according to the blog post. 
  • Lapsus$ has made claims on social media that it’s infiltrated several large tech companies besides Microsoft.
  • Microsoft’s blog post said that the hackers relied on large-scale social engineering and extortion campaigns against multiple organizations.
  • In social engineering attacks, cybercriminals try to lure individuals into revealing critical personal information via phishing attacks and this information can then be used to compromise other accounts. 
  • All of this information might be used to either guess passwords or even answers to security questions for an account.
  • According to Microsoft, the group also relied on a “pure extortion and destruction model without deploying ransomware payloads.”
  • Their targets are across a range of sectors: government, technology telecom, media, retail and healthcare. It is also attacking cryptocurrency exchanges to steal cryptocurrency holdings.
  • In some cases, it has even paid employees or suppliers at an organization in order to gain access to privileged networks and systems. 
  • Another example talks about the group calling up an organization’s helpdesk to reset a target’s credentials. 
  • For now, Microsoft has recommended that businesses rely on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to protect themselves from such attacks. 
  • It also recommends against weak MFA factors such as text messages, since these are susceptible to SIM swapping. 
  • It has also cautioned against simple voice approvals, push notifications, or even “secondary email” based MFA methods.

 

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Source: The Indian Express
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