At the moment, the Brazilian Federal Police arrested a Brazilian suspect in Feira de Santana, Bahia, believed to be a part of the Lapsus$ extortion gang.
The suspect was detained following an investigation began in December 2021 after final yr’s breach of the Brazilian Ministry of Well being.
In the course of the incident, the attackers deleted recordsdata and defaced the Ministry of Well being web site to show a message the place the Lapsus$ hacking group claimed the assault and mentioned it had stolen information from the ministry’s community.
The investigations that led to the arrest are a results of Operation Darkish Cloud, launched in August and aiming to gather data on the exercise of a potential felony group behind a number of cyberattacks focusing on Brazilian authorities businesses because the finish of final yr.
Moreover the Ministry of Well being, the group additionally focused dozens of different Brazilian Federal Authorities our bodies and entities, together with the Ministry of Economic system, the Comptroller Normal of the Union, and the Federal Freeway Police.
“The crimes decided within the police investigation are these of felony group, invasion of a pc machine, interruption or disturbance of telegraphic, radiotelegraphic or phone service, stopping or hindering its restoration,” the Brazilian Federal Police mentioned (automated translation).
“It was additionally discovered the follow of corruption of minors, against the law supplied for within the Statute of Youngsters and Adolescents, and cash laundering, in keeping with Regulation No. 9,613/1998.”
Lapsus$ member arrests
The Metropolis of London Police additionally arrested seven people from the UK in late March underneath suspicions that they have been linked with the Lapsus$ gang.
Two of them have been charged on April 2nd with serving to the Lapsus$ extortion gang. They have been each launched on bail after showing within the Highbury Nook Magistrates Court docket.
The Lapsus$ gang has made the information this yr after attacking high-profile tech corporations worldwide, together with Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, Ubisoft, Okta, telecom firm Vodafone, and e-commerce big Mercado.
In lots of instances, the extortion group additionally leaked closed supply code and proprietary information stolen from their victims, resulting in large information leaks.
Most Lapsus$ members are believed to be youngsters pushed not by monetary motivation however primarily by their purpose of creating a reputation on the hacking scene.
The FBI can also be wanting into Lapsus$’s unlawful actions and searching for data regarding these group members who have been concerned within the compromise of laptop networks belonging to US-based corporations.
“These unidentified people took credit score for each the theft and dissemination of proprietary information that they declare to have illegally obtained,” the US regulation enforcement company says. “The FBI is searching for data concerning the identities of the people accountable for these cyber intrusions.”
Though it is nonetheless unclear what number of energetic members the gang nonetheless has, it’s believed that Lapsus$ has associates worldwide and, based mostly on Telegram chats seemingly suggesting, they converse a number of languages, together with English, Russian, Turkish, German, and Portuguese.
