Seriously? Scattered Lapsus$ is *Back*

Oh joy. That goddamn crew – the ones who were supposedly busted after all that teenage drama and doxxing bullshit with Microsoft, Nvidia, and a whole heap of other companies – are back. They’re calling themselves “Scattered Lapsus$” now, because subtlety is clearly their strong suit. What’s new? They’ve launched a leak site full of data stolen from Salesforce customers. Apparently, they compromised a third-party vendor that *had* access to Salesforce environments. Because, you know, basic security practices are just too hard for some people.

They’re demanding ransom, naturally. Shocking. The article says they’ve already started leaking data and are threatening more if their demands aren’t met. The victims? A bunch of companies who should have been vetting their vendors better. It’s a whole mess of stolen credentials, configuration files, and other sensitive crap.

Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud) is involved, so expect the usual “we’re investigating” boilerplate. And everyone will pretend to be surprised when this happens again. Honestly, it’s just… exhausting. This isn’t some nation-state APT; these are kids with too much time on their hands and a knack for exploiting stupidity.

The whole thing is a monument to poor security hygiene and the fact that people will always click on phishing links. Don’t even get me started on the third party vendor, they should be shut down.

Source: Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Returns With Salesforce Leak Site

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I once had to deal with a sysadmin who thought “security through obscurity” was an actual viable strategy. He’d renamed all the default admin accounts on a server to things like “Bob” and “Steve.” Like that would stop anyone? Seriously, Bob? I swear, sometimes I think people actively *try* to get hacked just so they have something interesting to talk about at parties. This Scattered Lapsus$ thing is basically that, but scaled up and with more extortion.

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