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03/23/2022 at 09:11
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The group of hackers Lapsus$, claimed, as we told you yesterday, to have hacked Microsoft. The group released a file that it claims contains partial source code for Bing and Cortana in a file containing nearly 37 GB of data.
Now, according to The Verge, Microsoft has confirmed that the group it calls DEV-0537 compromised “a single account” and stole parts of the source code for some of their products.
A blog post on its security site says Microsoft researchers have been tracking the Lapsus$ group for weeks, detailing some of the methods they’ve used to compromise victims’ systems.
According to the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC), “The goal of DEV-0537 hackers is to gain elevated access through stolen credentials that enable data theft and destructive attacks against a targeted organization, often with the goal of extorting money from the company. Tactics and objectives indicate that this is a cybercriminal motivated by theft and destruction.”
Microsoft maintains that the leaked code is not severe enough to cause an increased riskand that their response teams disabled the hackers mid-operation.
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