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A new hacker gang has been stealing code from some of the worlds biggest tech companies and dumping it all over the internet. <\/p>\n
The culprit is LAPSUS$, a criminal outfit whose trademark is taking on the biggest, shiniest target it can find, breaching it, then slyly bragging about the conquest. The gang initially seemed like a ransomware attackers to researchers, but it doesnt use encrypting malware, the programs that lock users out of their own systems in ransomware strikes. Instead, LAPSUS$ boosts victims data, then threatens to dump it if the price is not paid. <\/p>\n
While its not totally clear who is involved in the gang, researchers told Bloomberg that one of its main hackers may be a 16-year-old boy living with his mom in England.<\/p>\n
As more information comes in about the gang itself, heres a run-through of the biggest targets LAPSUS$ has hacked so far. <\/p>\n
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