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.

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.

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