Portugal

Russian SVR cyber-espionage group; perpetrators of the SolarWinds supply-chain compromise.

DEV-0537, widely known as Lapsus$, is an extortion-focused cybercriminal collective active since 2021, composed of members spanning multiple countries and notable for including younger individuals among its ranks. The group primarily pursues financial gain and notoriety by compromising high-profile organizations through social engineering, credential theft, and insider recruitment rather than traditional malware-heavy intrusion methods. Their targeting is broad and opportunistic, spanning sectors such as technology, telecommunications, government, finance, and retail across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.