Lapsus$ Rising: Identity-Driven Extortion’s Breakout
No zero-days, no malware — just MFA fatigue, SIM swaps, and help-desk social engineering. How Lapsus$ broke every assumption.
No zero-days, no malware — just MFA fatigue, SIM swaps, and help-desk social engineering. How Lapsus$ broke every assumption.
Attackers defeated the second factor, not the vault, draining $34M from 483 accounts before a platform-wide withdrawal halt stopped them.