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LAPSUS and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Ransom Day 1 (UPDATED)

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Day 1 (UPDATED) - DataBreaches.Net

First they thought their victim hacked them back. Then they appeared to be trolled by a “negotiator” who wasn’t. I don’t know if the Brazilian threat actors who call themselves LAPSUS felt like moving to Australia after a bad day at the ransom office yesterday, but their attack on Nvidia and the aftermath seemed somewhat… unusual, to say the least.

On February 26, word of the attack on chip giant Nvidia gained attention on Twitter after LAPSUS used their Telegram channel to leak what they claimed was employee data. They also threatened to leak 1TB of Nvidia’s data. @DarkTracer_int tweeted some screencaps:

At that point, it seeme…

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