Six things to know:
- Lapsus$ does not use ransomware, but instead relies on bribery and nonransomware extortion.
- The group uses tactics ranging “from simple to moderately complex,” according to the report. Some of its common approaches are credential theft; multifactor authentication bypass; social engineering; managed service provider compromise; SIM swapping; accessing employees’ email accounts; bribing employees, suppliers or business partners of target organizations for credentials and multifactor authentication approval; and self-injection into companies’ ongoing crisis communication calls.
- Lapsus$ may be composed of teenagers and young adults, according to the report. Its members speak English, Russian, Turkish, German and Portuguese.
- The group usually targets large companies.
- Lapsus$ was discovered in April 2020.
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