Microsoft Also Falls Victim to Hacking Group LAPSUS$

ThrashZone · Mar 22, 2022

Hi,
Is combining a reg as easy as select all and copy and paste over and over ?

CrAsHnBuRnXp · Mar 22, 2022

Im waiting for the student loan cancellation now.

lexluthermiester said:
Not true, Edge can be forcibly removed. Easily too!

Now that Edge is based on Chrome, what is everyone's problem with it still?

Chrispy_ · Mar 22, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
Not true, Edge can be forcibly removed. Easily too!

Edge can be removed, but it does break things.

I have it removed at home but there are work deployments where not having edge breaks all kinds of things from 2FA to MS admin consoles for Azure integration, management etc. UWP apps that are either based on or actively integrated into Azure/Sharepoint/O365 throw hissyfits on the regular.

I've personally tried to create a work-viable "no-cortana, no-edge" deployment and people keep finding problems with it that are too much of a PITA to workaround.

ThrashZone · Mar 22, 2022

CrAsHnBuRnXp said:
Im waiting for the student loan cancellation now.

Now that Edge is based on Chrome, what is everyone's problem with it still?

Hi,
Lip stick on a pig.

the54thvoid · Mar 22, 2022

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Not using win-11

Not tough to find a insider microsoft loves the h-b1 program.

Research says LAPSU$ is South American. I'm pretty sure 'skilled foreign worker' programs poach from the highly educated far east. On that basis, I'd go so far as to say it'll be lonely white-collar, office-cube denizens looking for some latin charm that got romance-scam phished from the sea.

ThrashZone · Mar 22, 2022

the54thvoid said:
Research says LAPSU$ is South American. I'm pretty sure 'skilled foreign worker' programs poach from the highly educated far east. On that basis, I'd go so far as to say it'll be lonely white-collar, office-cube denizens looking for some latin charm that got romance-scam phished from the sea.

Hi,
Well ms I'm sure gets cheaper talent from many countries not just far east but money talks and is a easy motivator for bad guys of course covert plants aren't out of the question either.
I remember a USA senators driver was one so yeah ms having a few isn't unheard of :laugh:

the54thvoid · Mar 22, 2022

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Well ms I'm sure gets cheaper talent from many countries not just far east but money talks and is a easy motivator for bad guys of course covert plants aren't out of the question either.
I remember a USA senators driver was one so yeah ms having a few isn't unheard of

It's all about the humans. Once we get rid of them gullible meat sacks, there'll be no more hacking leaks.

R-T-B · Mar 22, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
Not any more or less than anywhere else. For example, I have no debt to speak of.

I don't have the stats at hand but I will point out that you as one person are statistically insignificant.

claes · Mar 22, 2022

Here you go:

List of countries by household debt - Wikipedia

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ThrashZone · Mar 22, 2022

Hi,
Yeah lock downs didn't help anyone get out of prior debt.

Deleted member 202104 · Mar 22, 2022

Mussels said:
They can literally put up ads in places saying "work for big tech? We'll pay big dollars for info" and frikkin advertise that they want you to sell out

This may delve into politics but the US is a country that has lots of people in debt for various reasons, some of them get desperate and would absolutely 'open an innocent email' on a work PC for a bitcoin

It's not like MS only employees people in the US.

I'll just leave this here.

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Australia has one of the highest levels of household debt in the world. Get details on the average debt values for home loans, credit cards and more here.

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claes · Mar 22, 2022

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Yeah lock downs didn't help anyone get out of prior debt.

Given MS could go fully remote and probably pays pretty well I’m not sure what this has to do with anything

ThrashZone · Mar 22, 2022

Hi,
Not surprising
But then again maybe you think ms employs the planet :laugh:

TheinsanegamerN · Mar 22, 2022

the54thvoid said:
Research says LAPSU$ is South American. I'm pretty sure 'skilled foreign worker' programs poach from the highly educated far east. On that basis, I'd go so far as to say it'll be lonely white-collar, office-cube denizens looking for some latin charm that got romance-scam phished from the sea.

LAPSUS$ only needs to find one ofrmer disgruntled H!-B worker with 0 loyalty to spill the beans. They are a dime a dozen at MS now, and they are the very cubicle workers you are talking about.

claes · Mar 22, 2022

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Not surprising
But then again maybe you think ms employs the planet

Sorry, don’t understand your words. This is an English speaking forum so it’d help if you used complete sentences.

I get it — you don’t think Covid is real, the only reason Americans have economic strife is lockdowns, foreigners with bachelor’s degrees seeking tech jobs are inherently criminals, Bill Gates is engaged in a globalist conspiracy to bring communism and pedophilia to the world — just use complete sentences to express your thoughts and we’ll understand!

TheinsanegamerN said:
LAPSUS$ only needs to find one ofrmer disgruntled H!-B worker with 0 loyalty to spill the beans. They are a dime a dozen at MS now, and they are the very cubicle workers you are talking about.

Or they could find a disgruntled American…

Also it’s H-1B guys… know your enemy lol.

the54thvoid · Mar 22, 2022

TheinsanegamerN said:
LAPSUS$ only needs to find one ofrmer disgruntled H!-B worker with 0 loyalty to spill the beans. They are a dime a dozen at MS now, and they are the very cubicle workers you are talking about.

Not how hacking works. Susceptible targets tend to be less well educated and rarely sourced as 'grudge bearers'. That's more likely a spy.

If you're looking at disgruntled workers, maybe consider those home grown folks who resent foreign placements. That's far more logical.

lexluthermiester · Mar 23, 2022

CrAsHnBuRnXp said:
Now that Edge is based on Chrome, what is everyone's problem with it still?

It's partly closed source, and full of microsoft's standard BS. The only reason I use Windows is because I have too or I would have moved on after the rubbish of Windows 8.

Chrispy_ said:
Edge can be removed, but it does break things.

Not that I have seen. At least nothing that I care about. I don't care about all of the integration crap, nor the ms store economy. XBox on Windows holds no appeal for me. So it's possible that removing Edge might break something, but my personal use-case-scenario, there have been zero side effects. YMMV.

Chrispy_ said:
I've personally tried to create a work-viable "no-cortana, no-edge" deployment and people keep finding problems with it that are too much of a PITA to workaround.

Windows Enterprise LTSC. All of the integration is gone as is Cortana, Edge and the store app. You should look into it.

Chrispy_ · Mar 23, 2022

lexluthermiester said:
It's partly closed source, and full of microsoft's standard BS. The only reason I use Windows is because I have too or I would have moved on after the rubbish of Windows 8.

Not that I have seen. At least nothing that I care about. I don't care about all of the integration crap, nor the ms store economy. XBox on Windows holds no appeal for me. So it's possible that removing Edge might break something, but my personal use-case-scenario, there have been zero side effects. YMMV.

Windows Enterprise LTSC. All of the integration is gone as is Cortana, Edge and the store app. You should look into it.

Yeah, I had LTSC.
As I stated, it's not usable. People need the Windows Store for UWP business apps that are actively developed and cannot be sideloaded in a working way.

I don't need that shit at home, so I've removed Edge, but if you work on Microsoft's cloud for whatever contractual obligations you're tied to, you literally cannot remove Edge otherwise you can't work. Azure, Office365, UWP, Sharepoint - all of these things either stop working or lose enough functionality that any benefits from de-Edging the machine are outweighed by the new problems.

Octavean · Mar 31, 2022

But how can this be? Surely Windows 11‘s compulsory secure boot and TPM 2.0 is all the security you’ll ever need!!! Right along with “640K is more memory than anyone will ever need”,……

Right,….???

Zinggggggggg,……..

lexluthermiester · Mar 31, 2022

Octavean said:
But how can this be? Surely Windows 11‘s compulsory secure boot and TPM 2.0 is all the security you’ll ever need!!! Right along with “640K is more memory than anyone will ever need”,……

Right,….???

Zinggggggggg,……..

Bazingga!

windwhirl · Mar 31, 2022

Octavean said:
But how can this be? Surely Windows 11‘s compulsory secure boot and TPM 2.0 is all the security you’ll ever need!!! Right along with “640K is more memory than anyone will ever need”,……

Right,….???

Zinggggggggg,……..

No matter how many measures you put in place, you can't fix stupid. Nor people willingly forking over the keys to the kingdom.

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Microsoft Also Falls Victim to Hacking Group LAPSUS$

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