LAPSUS$
Also tracked as DEV-0537, Strawberry Tempest
LAPSUS$ is cyber criminal threat group that has been active since at least mid-2021. LAPSUS$ specializes in large-scale social engineering and extortion operations, including destructive attacks without the use of ransomware. The group has targeted organizations globally, including in the government, manufacturing, higher education, energy, healthcare, technology, telecommunications, and media sectors.
- Documented techniques
- 43
- Assessed motivation
- Financial gain, Sabotage
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
reconnaissance8
resource development5
initial access1
execution1
privilege escalation1
credential access7
collection6
command and control1
defense impairment2
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.