{"id":1398576,"date":"2022-03-24T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398576"},"modified":"2022-03-24T13:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T17:31:24","slug":"cybersleuths-suspect-16-year-old-uk-teen-as-mastermind-of-major-lapsus-hacker-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cybersleuths-suspect-16-year-old-uk-teen-as-mastermind-of-major-lapsus-hacker-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersleuths Suspect 16-Year-Old UK Teen as Mastermind of Major &#039;Lapsus$&#039; Hacker Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcybersleuths-suspect-16-year-old-uk-teen-as-mastermind-of-major-lapsus-hacker-group%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1398576&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Cybersecurity researchers believe they may have found the hacker behind the recent \u201cLapsus$\u201d cyberattacks on companies including Microsoft and Nvidia \u2014 and their suspect is a 16-year old boy living in England.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-23\/teen-suspected-by-cyber-researchers-of-being-lapsus-mastermind?sref=ylv224K8\">reports<\/a>\u00a0that cybersecurity researchers that have been investigating a number of recent cyberattacks on tech companies like Microsoft and Nvidia perpetrated by a group calling itself \u201cLapsus$\u201d believe they have traced the attacks back to a 16-year-old boy living with his mother in Oxford, England.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers investigating the hacking group Lapsus$ say they believe that the teenager is behind the attacks. Lapsus$ has confused many cybersecurity experts as the motivation of the hackers seemed to be random, with no primary aim. The researchers believe that the group is most likely motivated simply by money and notoriety.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10492956\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Microsoft-CEO-Satya-Nadella.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The teenager that is under suspicion by the researchers has yet to be conclusively tied to all of the hacks that Lapsus$ has claimed responsibility for. The researchers used forensic evidence from the hacks and publicly available information to link the teenager to the group.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bloomberg is not naming the teenager due to his status as a minor, but he goes by the online alias \u201cWhite\u201d and \u201cbreachbase.\u201d The teenager has also not yet been publicly accused by law enforcement of illegal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers suspect another member of the hacking group to be a teenager from Brazil. One investigator said that security researchers have identified seven unique accounts linked with Lapsus$, indicating that others are likely involved in the hacks.<\/p>\n<p>Lapsus$ has made a point of publicly embarrassing its hacking victims, leaking their source code and internal documents. Lapsus$ has even joined Zoom calls of companies they\u2019ve breached where they taunted employees attempting to fix the hack.<\/p>\n<p>The group reportedly has poor operational security, according to researchers. Microsoft designated the group with the name DEV-0537, and commented in a blog post:\u00a0\u201cUnlike most activity groups that stay under the radar, DEV-0537 doesn\u2019t seem to cover its tracks. They go as far as announcing their attacks on social media or advertising their intent to buy credentials from employees of target organizations. DEV-0537 started targeting organizations in the United Kingdom and South America but expanded to global targets, including organizations in government, technology, telecom, media, retail and health-care sectors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-03-23\/teen-suspected-by-cyber-researchers-of-being-lapsus-mastermind?sref=ylv224K8\">Bloomberg here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers believe they may have found the hacker behind the recent \u201cLapsus$\u201d cyberattacks on companies including Microsoft and Nvidia \u2014 and their suspect is a 16-year old boy living<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}