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

Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])

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.
@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.