Lapsus$ Recovered from T-Mobile Hacking!

In the past days, 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$, London police recently arrested a 16-year-old Korean boy whom they think is their ‘leader’. However, Lapsus$ 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 was also hacked by Lapsus$

T-Mobile, one of Germany’s largest GSM operators, was attacked last month. 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 is carried out by the SIM swapping method, group members can infiltrate the numbers stored in the system and access all notifications, calls and messages received on the phones. 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 major losses, one of the last targets of the group was the FBI. Allegedly, Lapsus$, To access the system containing the FBI’s monitoring tools and operational vehicle software. made some attempts. 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.

FBI regarding malware systems are working as expected and alerted immediately. states. 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.

How many members of the group still have not been arrested and how many more how many cyber attacks they have carried out remains unknown. However, the situation has become such that Lapsus$ is the bottom of almost every cyber attack news we come across.