Security News > 2022 > March > UK Cops Collar 7 Suspected Lapsus$ Gang Members

In a statement given to TechCrunch, the City of London Police said the seven are between 16 and 21: "The City of London Police has been conducting an investigation with its partners into members of a hacking group," according to Detective Inspector Michael O'Sullivan.

There could well be more: Another investigator told the outlet that security researchers have identified seven unique accounts associated with Lapsus$, "Indicating that there are likely others involved in the group's operations."

She's been working with researchers at security firm Palo Alto Networks to track individual members of LAPSUS$ even prior to the group's formation.

After a few years his net worth accumulated to well over 300BTC. [He] now is affiliated with a wannabe ransomware group known as 'Lapsus$', who has been extorting & 'hacking' several organisations.

In February, the group also stole two of Nvidia's code-signing certificates - certificates that were then used to sign malware, enabling malicious programs to slide past security safeguards on Windows machines.

"A few of our members has a vacation until 30/3/2022. We might be quiet for some times," the hackers wrote in the group's Telegram channel.

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https://threatpost.com/uk-cops-collar-7-suspected-lapsus-gang-members/179098/