6 Tech Giants That Have Been Breached by a Nefarious New Hacker Gang

A Modern hack ring has been stealing codification from some of the world ’s cock-a-hoop tech caller and deck it all over the net .

The perpetrator is LAPSUS$ , a reprehensible outfit whose trademark is accept on the biggest , shiniest object it can recover , breaching it , then foxily bragging about the conquest . The bunch initially seemed like a ransomware aggressor to research worker , but it does n’t apply cipher malware , the programs that lock in substance abuser out of their own system in ransomware strikes . Instead , LAPSUS$ boosts victims ’ data , then threatens to dump it if the price is not paid .

While it ’s not totally clear-cut who is involved in the gang , researchers toldBloombergthat one of its main cyber-terrorist may be a 16 - year - one-time male child be with his mom in England .