One month later, the mystery of the Jaguar Land Rover hack persists

Factories paralyzed, a multinational in crisis, 1.5 billion pounds (1.7 billion euros) of emergency aid released by the British government... And yet, a month after the cyberattack, revealed on September 2, targeting Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), with consequences rarely seen for a company of this size, the technical details are still unclear. How did the hackers get in? Did they deploy malware? Steal data? Questions remain unanswered, despite seven press releases from the group.

There remain some strange claims published online, which leave most experts speechless. On the Telegram messaging service, a group calling itself Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published screenshots of what it claims are JLR's internal computer systems in early September. There's no ransom demand or extortion attempt, but a claim accompanied by vague threats against British authorities.

"They often publish very selective screenshots accompanied by grandiloquent claims; our default position is skepticism until there is confirmation from the victims or a complete publication of the data" allegedly stolen, a spokesperson for the Cyber ​​Intelligence Center of KELA, a company specializing in computer security, told Le Monde . To date, no one else has publicly claimed responsibility for the attack on JLR.

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