Lapsus$, the same hacking group that breached Nvidia last week, is now targeting Samsung, another industry behemoth. The hackers claim to have stolen over 190GB of data from Samsung, shortly after stealing 1TB of data from Nvidia, which included the company’s DLSS code.
Bleeping Computer reported earlier this week that the hacking group was teasing the release of Samsung’s data with a snapshot of C/C++ directives in the company’s software.
Soon after, the hackers publicly announced the leak, claiming to have stolen Samsung source code. The leak contains three compressed files totaling nearly 190GB.
This data was distributed via torrent, and the hackers stated that they would be deploying additional servers so that peers could benefit from faster download speeds on the torrent. Here is a synopsis of the leaked content:
- Source code for every Trusted Applet (TA) in Samsung’s TrustZone environment
- Algorithms for all biometric unlock operations
- Bootloader source code for all recent Samsung devices.
- Source code from Samsung’s Activision servers as well as confidential source code from Qualcomm
- Full source code used for technology used for authenticating Samsung accounts
Samsung has stated that it is investigating the breach, but there is no word on whether the hackers are demanding a ransom.
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