Vodafone and Mercado Libre hit by ransomware attacks

Emerging ransomware group Lapsus$, which recently stole proprietary information and employee credentials from Nvidia and exposed the sensitive internal company data, including the software source code of the world’s biggest smartphone manufacturer Samsung, appears to have struck two new big names in the technology universe: British telecom multinational Vodafone and South American e-commerce giant Mercado Libre.