Team A vs Team B: What is Motivating Lapsus$?

This blog summarizes a Team A/Team B structured analytic exercise by ReliaQuest analysts that reassesses the motivations behind the Lapsus$ group after a string of high-profile intrusions and public data leaks; the analysis weighs hypotheses that Lapsus$ is financially motivated, politically/ideologically motivated, or primarily seeking notoriety (the “lulz”), and concludes the group's atypical, opportunistic behavior complicates attribution and forecasting for defenders.