Unfortunately this thread broke in half due to me forgetting to bookmark a toot - here’s the original half https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115134898389127599

The lapsus guys continue to go nuts on IRC^H^H^HTelegram https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gqepe5355o

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Jaguar Land Rover have contained their network and stopped production after what appears to be a ransomware incident. VPNs and network border in UK all down.

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To back up ReliaQuest - this is the exploit LAPSUS guys have running around with on SAP Netweaver, just had a look this evening after acquiring the exploit. https://reliaquest.com/blog/threat-spotlight-reliaquest-uncovers-vulnerability-behind-sap-netweaver-compromise/

There’s a metric ton - over 5 figures - of these boxes directly internet facing. Worse; from version printing, less than 5% are patched for the two CVEs being exploited.

Liverpool Echo reports Jaguar Land Rover production still isn't running, with factory staff told to stay at home, and report it impacts all manufacturing locations. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/update-jaguar-land-rover-shut-32411513

Separately, the network border is also still offline (I have monitoring in place to see when they come back online).

Update on Jaguar Land Rover shut down as Merseyside workers still at home

Global shut down continues into fourth day as group claims responsibility for cyber attack

Liverpool Echo

If anybody runs into a LAPSUS$ incident at their org hit me up on Signal, I can try to help profile their MO as been there, done that.

They'll frequently not even bother to deploy ransomware, they'll also do crazy things (and like to write about poo, and send people poo packages in the mail). It's basically like fighting Mr Bean, who is also good at computers.

This isn't anything against the LAPSUS guys btw as they're basically having a five year ninja fight with Mandiant, DART, cyber standards and law enforcement while playing teenage Mr Bean and lets be honest... that's pretty funny and eye opening.
ITV reports Jaguar Land Rover has shut down car production in the UK, Slovakia, China, India and Brazil.
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-04/jaguar-land-rover-temporarily-halts-all-car-production-following-cyber-attack

ITV News 6pm lead story on Jaguar Land Rover

Key take away is anonymous source at JLR saying they may need UK government support for motor sector off the back of the incident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4xQz0iKK4g

Jaguar Land Rover halts all car production following cyber attack | ITV News

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JLR is keeping all factory production suspended today, tomorrow, Sunday and at least Monday (possibly longer) in UK, Slovakia, China, India and Brazil.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/jaguar-land-rover-staff-until-32413174
Jaguar Land Rover staff to be off until at least Tuesday as cyber crisis grows

Email to production workers at car giant's Halewood plant says they will be stood down on Friday and Monday after hack

Liverpool Echo
JLR direct employ 32k people in the UK so I imagine there's going to be ripple effects on the wider economy off the back of this one the longer it goes on.
Meanwhile the LAPSUS guys were busy posting large numbers of US defense Top Secret marked documents last night. They've since been deleted from Telegram.

One surprising thing with the Jaguar Land Rover incident - they've only isolated JAGUAR LAND ROVER AUTOMOTIVE PLC (AS205756), the UK network. The India, China etc networks are still online.

When I dealt with LAPSUS elsewhere they entered via a different country network/biz unit and then pivoted to target country/biz unit.

JLR UK have got one internet facing system back online - wslx.jlrext.com

Single factor auth only because that's how automotives roll. If you visit direct IP, it's still branded Ford - Ford sold the business in 2008.

Just checked in on JLR - factory production won't be resuming tomorrow (day 7).
Jaguar Land Rover car production is still shut down tomorrow, day 8. I’ve checked the network border, everything except one system in UK is also still offline.

JLR are keeping car production closed until least Monday. They also say “some data was impacted”, whatever that means.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/jaguar-land-rover-issues-crisis-32447659

Jaguar Land Rover issues crisis update 10 days after staff told to stay at home

Ten days after the major car manufacturer was hit by a cyber attack staff have still not returned to the factory

Liverpool Echo
JLR have started switching border routers back on (don't ask me why SNMP, NTP and SSH are internet facing).
JLR shouldn't feel bad, Tata Motors (their parent) is way worse shape. They've even got Exchange Server with OWA internet facing without MFA.
Jaguar Land Rover have told factory workers worldwide to stay home until at least next Wednesday, which will be 17 days since the cyber incident began. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3e712nvyz9o.amp
Jaguar Land Rover plants shut until Wednesday after cyber attack - BBC News

Staff in Solihull, Halewood and Wolverhampton have been told not to come into work until Wednesday.

BBC News

Unite are calling on the government to urgently intervene over the Jaguar Land Rover cyber incident, to introduce a furlough scheme for JLRs suppliers.

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2025/september/jlr-supply-chain-workers-impacted-by-cyberattack-must-receive-government-support-says-unite

JLR have lost between £50m-£100m so far according to BBC estimates https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czdjn0lv64ro
Jaguar Land Rover suppliers 'face bankruptcy' due to hack crisis

The government has been urged to "act fast" to protect hundreds of jobs following the cyber attack.

BBC News

If anybody is interested, TCS’ website says JLR outsourced cybersecurity (not sure which bits) to it a few years ago.

TCS also run security operations and monitoring for Co-op (my old team) along with their IT and IT helpdesk, and M&S secops monitoring, IT and IT helpdesk.

Jaguar Land Rover have extended their manufacturing shutdown until at least next Wednesday, the 24th of September. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/16/jaguar-land-rover-production-shutdown-cyber-attack
Jaguar Land Rover extends production shutdown after cyber-attack

Carmaker says it will freeze production until at least 24 September as it continues investigations

The Guardian

In my own story, I discovered JLR outsourced different cybersecurity areas to TCS and then made many of the UK team redundant 6 months ago.

https://doublepulsar.com/the-elephant-in-the-biz-outsourcing-of-critical-it-and-cybersecurity-functions-risks-uk-economic-96205e0585bf

The BBC report just over 100k jobs sit outside Jaguar Land Rover in the supply chain, those staff are being told to apply for universal credit and the shut down could last until November. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c784nwvj1l3o
JLR supply chain staff told to apply for universal credit, union says

Staff are being laid off with "reduced or zero pay" following a cyber attack, which has forced the carmaker to shut down, Unite union claims.

BBC News

Liam Byrne MP, the chair of the Commons business and trade committee has said "We think this is an attack which is much, much worse than the attack that took down Marks and Spencer."

He's calling for the government to insure suppliers via taxpayer money when orgs get hit with ransomware.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyrqxj3eqqo

Liam Byrne MP fears JLR hack could see thousands laid off

Liam Byrne, MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill & North Solihull, wants emergency support for workers.

BBC News

This is JLR's parent company, and this is JLR's network border today - personally, I think there's no way the government should have the obligation to bail out this situation.

JLR just made their most profits in a decade, after making cybersecurity staff redundant in March. JLR need their suppliers to resume production. JLR should pay their suppliers: they can afford it, and need them.

@GossiTheDog If the government has the guts to refuse to bail these idiots out then they will have to pay the suppliers or their supply chain will break down, and they'll have to buy their bankrupt suppliers before some smart-ass in a rival car company buys the assets of said failed supplier in order to fuck them over.
@GossiTheDog agreed. Otherwise we aren't really insuring the supplies, but the giant multinational from loses.
@GossiTheDog that is certainly one of the ideas of all time
@Rairii @GossiTheDog unfortunately "success is privatized, failure is socialized" is a shit idea.
An excellent way of creating deep pockets for hackers to dip into.

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Or business could improve their IT Security rather than worrying about paying shareholders ever-increasing dividends.

Why should taxpayers subsidise incompetent or careless businesses? 🤔

@simonzerafa @GossiTheDog they outsourced it to TCS (Tata Consulting Services), a sister company within the Tata conglomerate, TCS clearly screwed the pooch. Government taking on that responsibility would be a textbook example of how to create moral hazard.
@GossiTheDog Holy hell. I gathered they were royally screwed from your toots, but not Colt levels of screwed.
@GossiTheDog and then having FA'd they FO

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Say Tata to your business.

@GossiTheDog Risk mitigation is a cost center. For a while.
@GossiTheDog I think you might be making a point here, but I can’t quite see it 😉
@GossiTheDog well isn’t that interesting

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So JLR don't have business interrupion and or Consiquential Losses insurance? 🫤

Or money in the bank? 🤔

@simonzerafa this isn't about JLR, it's about their suppliers, who aren't getting any orders and hence have neither work for their employees nor the money to pay them.

@womble

If JLR's workers we're getting paid (and they should be) then that's partial mitigation for some employees service providers (local businesses, shops etc).

Those business to business service providers should have their own mitigations in place for business interruption issues as JRL should.

Ultimately it is an interconnected market economy, not largely state controlled. Although JLR might be heading that way, if it remains viable.

If UK Gov needs to hand out "free" cash it then perhaps it needs to own part or all if the business? Before it's later sold to VW Group or Stalantis 🤔🤷‍♂️

@simonzerafa @womble “Those business to business service providers should have their own mitigations in place for business interruption issues as JRL should.”

What’s interesting in this case is most automotive is on a JIT delivery model so they don’t warehouse components. e.g. Mini bumpers arrive in colour order at Oxford to match the cars going down the assembly line. They don’t just get a truckload of red ones, then blue ones, etc. Suppliers incur fines if parts don’t arrive (halting production) and conversely Mini can cop large fines if they have to request a shipping pause (because the suppliers also have no warehousing for finished parts and need them out the door, or *they* have to halt production). JLR will have similar provisions and I’d be fascinated to know what liabilities they’ve incurred stopping prod for weeks. Presumably claiming force majeur and saying “no one gets anything”, which will be fun for the lawyers.

@GossiTheDog as a tax payer, but also a union member: screw that.

JLR should have insurance to cover this.

@WiteWulf

It isn't JLR that's affected here though (although they are, and friends of mine who work for them are currently having nightmares) - it's their suppliers. By that argument, they should also have insurance.
I guess tying a small company's entire output to one upstream behemoth used to be a safe bet, but not now.

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@GossiTheDog Have they not heard of Disaster Recovery? It’s also called “Business Continuity Plan” just in case I’m not clear.
@GossiTheDog is this why uk keeps getting pwned by kids?
@GossiTheDog How do you put MFA to on-premises Exchange?
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@GossiTheDog I’m sure it’s fine, I’m sure snmp isn’t read/write 😐
@GossiTheDog The better to breach me with, my dear.
@GossiTheDog It will be funny if cars start rolling off the production lines with manufactured dents in them.
@GossiTheDog that’s $40 million gone poof, just in sales profits.

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And `admin` // `Superman123!` is definitely not the creds

@GossiTheDog wow, still using Web Single Login, 20-odd years after it was intoduced at Ford

@GossiTheDog ah, but what kind of system is it running on? IIS on a 2008 R2 box?

Edit: Shodan shows it reporting Apache at a UK ip, plus a bunch of related subdomains on AWS in Germany.

@GossiTheDog Hold on, they just messed everything up and still restored their outdated systems? Some are really far behind in their learning curve.
@GossiTheDog making use of vlan; class b subnetting and wins: still runs in the kernel of you look deep enough. Horrible protocol broadcasting all over the network
@GossiTheDog does that shorten the odds on them getting assassinated
@Rairii @GossiTheDog if anything, it would be like what happened when conti threatened to attack infrastructure, tried to take it back, and the dumps started.
@GossiTheDog I imagine thats a potential outward sign of in-fighting.
@GossiTheDog does this mean fewer oversized tanks on UK roads? If so can we just leave them to it?