March 29, 2022
IT and software consultancy firm Globant confirmed a data breach by the Lapsus$ data extortion group. Stolen data, consisting of administrator credentials and source code, was leaked by the threat actors. The hacking group released a 70GB archive describing it as “some customers source code.”
August 13, 2022
Argentina’s Judiciary of Córdoba has shut down its IT systems after suffering a ransomware attack. The attack was reportedly at the hands of the new ‘Play’ ransomware operation and caused the Judiciary to shut down IT systems and their online portal. The outage is also forcing the use of pen and paper for submitting official documents.
The Judiciary confirmed that it was engaged with Microsoft, Cisco, Trend Micro, and local specialists to investigate the attack.