In recent days, we have shared with you the news that many leading companies in the industry like Samsung, NVIDIA, Vodafone, Microsoft have been hacked. A single group claimed responsibility for all these cyber-attacks, which resulted in companies losing huge amounts of data.

In the wake of global cyber-attacks by the group calling itself Lapsus$, London police recently arrested a 16-year-old Korean boy they believe is their “leader”. However, Lapsus$ still keeps coming up with news about cyber attacks. The group has claimed responsibility for some of the cyber attacks.

German mobile phone company T-Mobile also hacked by Lapsus$

T-Mobile, one of Germany’s largest mobile operators, was attacked last month. So far, however, no information has been released about the people who carried out the attack. According to The Verge’s report, T-Mobile was the last target of the group just before the 7 young members of Lapsus$ were recently arrested. In the attack, which allegedly targeted the cell phone operator’s employees, Lapsus$ planned to seize cell phones and personal information via SIM cards.

In this attack, which is carried out by 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 avoid further losses by spotting this leak in the system in a short time, the attackers already had access to some data. In regards to the data loss, the company issued a statement today saying that the system information accessed does not contain customer or government information.

Lapsus$ also tried to hack into the FBI

After the attack, which T-Mobile survived without major losses, one of the last targets of the group was the FBI. Reportedly, Lapsus$, To access the system with FBI monitoring tools and vehicle operational software. made some attempts. According to The Verge’s report, the FBI detected this malware in their systems in a very short time and invalidated the compromised credentials immediately after the intrusion permission was detected.

FBI on malware systems work as expected and are alerted immediately. states. In the scenario where the software cannot be detected immediately, it is envisioned that the losses could be much greater and become unavoidable. It’s interesting, of course, that Lapsus$, who isn’t just irritating the corporations, has the courage to attack the FBI.

How many members of the group have not yet 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 end of almost every cyber-attack news we come across.