Earlier this month, we saw Samsung confirm that data extortion group Lapsus$ has stolen the source code for its Galaxy smartphones. Now, the same cyber-hacking group has stolen the source codes of Microsoft’s Cortana and Bing from its internal servers. They claim to have gained access to partial source codes of these platforms, which includes 37GB worth of data. Let’s take a look at the details.
Microsoft recently published an official blog post on its security forum to confirm the stealing of its source codes. The tech giant says that it has been tracking the activities of the Lapsus$ group, which claims to have stolen sensitive data from other companies like Nvidia and Ubisoft as well.
Going forward, Microsoft said that it will continue to monitor the activities of Lapsus$ via the threat intelligence team. The company also highlighted many security systems such as strong multifactor authentication methods that other companies could implement to keep their data safe from such extortion groups. Moreover, it suggests other vulnerable companies educate their employees about social engineering attacks and create dedicated processes to handle such attacks.
