Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, March 24th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough. Today, have we uncovered the hackers behind Lapsus, that crazy new hacking group?

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Okay, I've been waiting for someone to figure this out. Who is behind Lapsis?

Haven't you been curious since this hacking group seems to have had success getting scalps that you don't normally see hackers

get Samsung and vidia octa as we've been talking about even Microsoft well if you were

writing the script for a movie about this, you'd probably make it,

I don't know, a 16-year-old hacker from England, right?

Which makes me think we're still in the current version of the matrix because yes

researchers say a 16 year old from England is the mastermind behind the

Lapsis group after seven unique accounts associated with Lapsis were identified, quoting Bloomberg.

Cybersecurity researchers investigating a string of hacks against technology companies including

Microsoft and NVIDIA have traced the attacks to a 16- 16 year old living at his mother's house near Oxford, England.

Four researchers investigating the hacking group Lapsis on behalf of companies that were attacked said they believe the teenager is the mastermind. The teen is suspected by the

researchers of being behind some of the major hacks carried out by Lapsus, but they haven't

been able to conclusively tie him to every, Lapsus has claimed.

The cyber researchers have used forensic evidence from the hacks as well as publicly available

information to tie the teen to the hacking group.

Bloomberg News isn't naming the alleged hacker who goes by the online alien. the accused by any law enforcement of any wrongdoing.

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