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LAPSUS$ HACKING GROUP REPORTEDLY HITS MICROSOFT, OKTA

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 * March 22, 2022

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Lapsus$ also claimed responsibility for breaches at Samsung and Nvidia.

The Lapsus$ hacking group has struck again, this time reportedly targeting
Microsoft and Okta with data leaks.

The Lapsus$ hacking group claims to have leaked the source code for Bing,
Cortana and other projects stolen from Microsoft’s internal Azure DevOps server,
Bleeping Computer reported. The group posted a screenshot to their Telegram
channel indicating the hack.

Microsoft didn’t respond to a request for comment. It told Bleeping Computer
that “they are aware of the claims and are investigating.”

Okta, which provides authentication services to thousands of customers such as
Major League Baseball (MLB) and MGM Resorts, is investigating a Lapsus$ data
breach.

According to Reuters, hackers posted screenshots of what they said was internal
information on their Telegram channel.

Okta issued the following statement in response to the Lapsus$ hacking group’s
claims:



“In late January 2022, Okta detected an attempt to compromise the account of a
third-party customer support engineer working for one of our subprocessors. The
matter was investigated and contained by the subprocessor. We believe the
screenshots shared online are connected to this January event. Based on our
investigation to date, there is no evidence of ongoing malicious activity beyond
the activity detected in January.”


LAPSUS$ BEHIND OTHER BIG-NAME DATA LEAKS

Lapsus$ is allegedly responsible for obtaining confidential data including the
source code that operates Samsung Galaxy smartphones. It also claimed
responsibility for the recent Nvidia breach.

Rajiv Pimplaskar is CEO of Dispersive, a network security provider.

Dispersive’s Rajiv Pimplaskar

“Attackers attack Microsoft and Okta because they know the value of identity,”
he said. “Identity, not apps, not servers, not devices, is the important
component in the cybersecurity world.”

Organizations must check identities, especially the privilege ones, in real
time, not just monthly, Pimplaskar said.

Saryu Nayyar is Gurucul‘s CEO and founder.

Gurucul’s Saryu Nayyar

“While customers are relying on vendors like Okta for zero trust and starting to
implement secure access service edge (SASE), this shows the need for more
advanced security operations tools to ensure that threat actors aren’t abusing
identity and access policies,” she said.

CISOs must invest more in automation-focused threat detection, investigation and
response (TDIR) solutions, Nayyar said.



Kevin Novak is managing director at Breakwater Solutions. He said if
the compromise involved a successful assault on client information, such as
client credentialing, key materials or source code pertaining to environments
that may lead to client compromises, then Okta may suffer much greater scrutiny
from the field for its “lack of adequate, timely notification of the event.”

Breakwater Solutions’ Kevin Novak

“Security professionals around the world are debating the list of compromise
possibilities based on the pictures posted about the hack, but no definitive
word has been shared by Okta,” he said.


CUSTOMERS CAN’T JUST ‘SWITCH OFF’ OKTA

If hackers compromised Okta’s environment, companies can’t “simply flip a
switch” and authenticate/authorize on a different platform, Novak said. Embedded
platforms require time to swap.

“While some have made conjectures about whether this hack contributed to another
breach here or there, it would seem that a full compromise of Okta’s backend
would have become far more obvious by now, but we’ll see more over the next few
months,” he said.

Want to contact the author directly about this story? Have ideas for a follow-up
article? Email Edward Gately or connect with him on LinkedIn.


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