Security News > 2022 > October > Brazilian Police Arrest Suspected Member of Lapsus$ Hacking Group

The Federal Police of Brazil on Wednesday announced it had arrested an individual for purported links to the notorious LAPSUS$ extortionist gang.

Other federal government portals targeted by the LAPSUS$ group in Brazil include the Ministry of Economy, Comptroller General of the Union, and the Federal Highway Police.

"The crimes determined in the police investigation are those of criminal organization, invasion of a computer device, interruption or disturbance of telegraphic, radio, telegraphic or telephone service, preventing or hindering its restoration," it said.

Israeli cybersecurity firm Check Point, earlier this March, characterized the cybercrime crew as a "Portuguese hacking group from Brazil."

The findings come after the City of London Police arrested seven individuals from the U.K. in late March 2022, subsequently charging two of the juvenile defendants for breaking into computer systems and carrying out proprietary data theft.

The group's earliest intrusions were primarily aimed at Brazilian and South American institutions, before its members branched out to targeting other companies located in Europe and the U.S. Last month, the City of London Police disclosed it had apprehended a 17-year-old teen from Oxfordshire, who is alleged to be LAPSUS$'s ringleader, in connection with cyber attacks on Uber and Rockstar Games.

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