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Nathan Ord - Fri, Dec 22, 2023
Through 2022, the LAPSUS$ threat actor group went on a tear, breaching companies like NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Rockstar. The latter of these breaches resulted in quite a bit of game leaks related to GTA IV, revealing details...
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Nathan Ord - Thu, Aug 24, 2023
From 2021 to 2022, the LAPSUS$ hacking group went on a PWNing spree, popping boxes at companies such as NVIDIA, Samsung, Microsoft, and Rockstar. Since then, though, the teens behind the group have been arrested, likely partly due...
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Nathan Wasson - Fri, Jan 20, 2023
Yesterday, T-Mobile, one of the big three mobile internet service providers in the US, announced that it recently fell victim to a data breach. The company disclosed this information in both a news release and a filing with the Securities...
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Nathan Wasson - Mon, Dec 19, 2022
An investigation conducted by the Secret Services Cyber Fraud Task Force (CFTF) and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) has resulted in the arrest and conviction of a former T-Mobile employee by the name of Argishti...
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Nathan Wasson - Wed, Sep 21, 2022
2K, the publisher of numerous video game series, including Borderlands, Civilization, and Bioshock, has issued a notice to warn customers that an unknown actor recently gained unauthorized access to its help desk platform. The threat actor...
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Nathan Wasson - Tue, Sep 20, 2022
Last week, a massive security breach rocked Uber, with a teenage hacker claiming credit for the incident. Then, over the weekend, someone claiming to be this same hacker leaked Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 gameplay footage on the GTA forums...
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Nathan Wasson - Wed, Aug 03, 2022
Malware campaigns employ different techniques to smuggle malicious software onto computing devices without the notice of users or anti-virus systems. Threat actors who develop and distribute malware frequently rely on various forms of...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jul 27, 2022
You've probably heard a lot of conflicting things about the power consumption of NVIDIA's upcoming Ada family of GPUs, which are named after Ada Lovelace. There have been wildly varying reports ranging from 400W all the way up to "800W or...
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Nathan Wasson - Tue, Jun 28, 2022
A cybersecurity report published last month revealed the passwords most commonly used by business owners and executives, and topping this list were 123456 and password. The commonality of such remarkably weak passwords among not just...
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Tim Sweezy - Sun, Jun 05, 2022
T-Mobile just announced the limited launch of its new Voice over 5G technology. The new tech will be limited to select areas, but the company says it plans on extending it to many more regions later this year.
The Un-carrier continues...
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Nathan Wasson - Mon, May 16, 2022
The beginning of the year saw a flurry of stories about security breaches as the cybercriminal gang known as LAPSUS$ stole data from an alarming number of big name companies in a short period of time. However, while LAPSUS$...
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Zak Killian - Thu, May 12, 2022
NVIDIA's relationship with the open-source community has historically been a tale of intense on-again-off-again interactions. In recent years, the company has embraced open source more closely as of late, but its past refusal to...
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Nathan Wasson - Mon, Apr 25, 2022
Some recent revelations regarding cybercriminal activity have spelled bad news for T-Mobile. After government authorities seized RaidForums, a popular hacking site where stolen data was sold, court records revealed that T-Mobile attempted...
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Nathan Ord - Sat, Mar 26, 2022
Two days ago, we reported that the Londonpolice arrested seven individuals between the ages of 16 and 21 years old in connection with an investigation into notorious hacking group LAPSUS$. While it is unclear if the police nabbed...
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Mar 24, 2022
Update: British police say they have arrested seven individuals between the ages of 16 and 21 years old in connection with the investigation.
"The City of London Police has been conducting an investigation with its partners into members...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Mar 24, 2022
Popular hardware diagnostic tool HWiNFO is updated regularly to add support for new and upcoming devices. Apparently, the next update for HWiNFO is going to add support for NVIDIA's Hopper, Ada Lovelace, and Blackwell GPUs. This news comes...
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Nathan Wasson - Mon, Mar 21, 2022
A ransomware gang known as LAPSUS$ has recently hit a number of big-name targets, including NVIDIA, Samsung, and Ubisoft, and the group may have now added Microsoft to that list. LAPSUS$ made waves at the end of February when...
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Nathan Wasson - Wed, Mar 09, 2022
Samsung has been the subject of a number of disappointing news reports lately, between a security flaw affecting 100 million Galaxy devices, hacker group LAPSUS$ stealing Galaxy device source code, and Samsungs Game Optimizing...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Mar 07, 2022
The hacking group Lapsus$ (or "LAPSUS$") has been extra busy the past couple of weeks. First it breached NVIDIA and stole what it claims is 1TB of data, including what appears to be DLSS source code, and now it has plundered...
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Nathan Wasson - Mon, Mar 07, 2022
News broke on February 25th that NVIDIA had been hit by a cyber-attack. The LAPSUS$ ransomware gang took responsibility for the attack the next day, but also claimed that NVIDIA hit them back with its ownransomware. However, NVIDIAs...
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Zak Killian - Sat, Mar 05, 2022
Let's go over the NVIDIA vs. Lapsus saga: On February 25th, The Telegraph reported that an insider had informed them of a cyber-attack on NVIDIA. The next day, Lapsus (frequently stylized as LAPSUS$) took...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Mar 05, 2022
Hacker group LAPSUS$ has seemingly struck again, this time targeting Samsung. The group claims to have released data from the tech giant that includes algorithms for all biometric unlock operations, along with bootloader source code...
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