It is unclear if the Lapsus$ hacking group succeeded in getting any type of ransom from Samsung. The Lapsus$ hacking group was also responsible for the Nvidia hack where the private data was made public for their employees. Nvidia’s information totaling approximately 1 TB, including details of all latest GPUs by the company was breached.
200 gigabytes of data that is confidential along with source code that included biometric unlocking operations and algorithms were stolen by The Lapsus$ hacking group .
Bloomberg reported, “ NVIDIA didn’t confirm whether it was Lapsus$ who breached their networks and exfiltrated data but said they have been aware of the breach since February 23. “We are aware that the threat actor took employee credentials and some Nvidia proprietary information from our systems and has begun leaking it online”
The source code that Lapsus$ obtained was for trusted applets installed in Samsung’s TrustZone environment. Samsung uses this for phones to perform sensitive operations and algorithms for all biometric unlock operations and bootloader source code for all newer Samsung Galaxy devices.
It has been reported that QUALCOMM’s data was also compromised. The U.S chipmaker Qualcomm supplies chipsets for Samsung smartphones.
The request from Lapsus$ hacking group was for the U.S. chipmaker to disable its controversial Lite Hash Rate (LHR) feature and demanded access to its open source its graphics chip drivers for macOS, Windows and Linux devices.
The stolen data also allegedly includes confidential data from U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm, which supplies chipsets for Samsung smartphones sold in the United States.
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