Lapsus$ hacking group members, a few of them, have now been arrested.
The City of London Police has confirmed that two of the seven people previously arrested and subsequently released are now officially charged with a crime in connection with the Lapsus$ hacking.
The said London police force, in collaboration with its partners, has been conducting an investigation into members of the Lapsus$ hacking group for some time now.
Lapsus$ Hackers Arrest
Lapsus$ hackers that were arrested are now being charged. Police authorities in the U.K. reportedly arrested seven people aged 16 to 21 years old on March 25 that were allegedly connected to cyber threat group Lapsus$.
However, a recently published statement from the City of London Police Detective Inspector Michael O'Sullivan provided an emailed statement in response to the questions surrounding the investigation and arrest of Lapsus$.
"The City of London Police has been conducting an investigation into members of a hacking group. Two teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, have been charged in connection with this investigation and remain in police custody."
O'Sullivan explained: "Both teenagers have been charged with: three counts of unauthorised access to a computer with intent to impair the reliability of data; one count of fraud by false representation and one count of unauthorised access to a computer with intent to hinder access to data. The 16-year-old has also been charged with one count of causing a computer to perform a function to secure unauthorised access to a program."
In addition, the City of London Police noted that the two teenagers will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates Court on April 1, 2022.
The police authorities have reminded the media that the suspects involved in this case are teenagers. Given the [circumstance, reports regarding their identification, address, school, and other personal information are in any matter prohibited by law.
On the contrary, a recent report from Bloomberg stated that the suspected mastermind behind the Lapsus$ hacking organization is a teenager based in Oxford, United Kingdom. In the report, it has also been mentioned that the researchers tracked down the 16-year-personal old's information on the internet, and figured "White" and "Breachbase" are the online names he used.
In another report here in iTech Post, "The 16-year-old alleged to be a Lapsus$ group leader was outed by rival hackers and angry business partners, who revealed his name, address, and social media pictures to authorities on a hacker website."
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Lapsus$ Hacking
Lapsus$ hackers have been known in the cybersecurity and tech industry for being a fairly new group of threat actors.
However, despite being new in the scene, Lapsus$ was able to hack into large and leading tech companies around the world.
Lapsus$ came into the limelight this year after they hacked NVIDIA. The actors claim that they only want to help the gaming mining community by hacking NVIDIA.
As previously reported, Lapsus$ demanded NVIDIA " to push an update for all GeForce RTX 30 Series Firmware, which will remove any restrictions placed by the company on the cards."
After that, a series of hacking from Lapsus$ took place; Lapsus$ hacked Samsung, Ubisoft, Microsoft, and Globant.
Microsoft also confirmed that they were indeed breached by Lapsus$, although the damage seems not to be that significant unlike the previous hacking in other companies.
Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, Detection and Response Team, and Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team revealed that they have been investigating Lapsus$ closely.
With that, Microsoft published a cybersecurity measure companies can practice in order to avoid, and mitigate, in cases where they might encounter Lapsus$.
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