Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup – Krebs on Security
Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies between 2021 and 2023, including LastPass, MailChimp, Okta,…
Teenage suspect in MGM Resorts hack arrested in Britain
The West Midlands Police said U.K. agencies — in coordination with the FBI — arrested a 17-year-old suspect in a breach that upended MGM's operations last year on the Las Vegas Strip.
UNC3944 is a financially motivated threat group that carries significant overlap with public reporting of "0ktapus," "Octo Tempest," "Scatter Swine," and "Scattered Spider" and has been observed adapting its tactics to include data theft from software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to attacker-owned cloud storage objects (using cloud synchronization tools), persistence mechanisms against virtualization platforms, and lateral movement via SaaS permissions abuse. Active since at least May 2022, UNC3944 has leveraged underground communities like Telegram to acquire tools, services, and support to enhance their operations.
Comment une nébuleuse, "The Comm", a engendré l’un des gangs les plus craints du moment, Scattered Spider
Enfin une bonne nouvelle à propos de Scattered Spider, ce gang de cybercriminels actif depuis le printemps 2022 ? La presse espagnole vient d’annoncer l’arrestation d’un Anglais présenté comme l’un des leaders de ce groupe informel de pirates informatiques. Le jeune homme de 22 ans s'apprêtait à s’envoler vers l’Italie quand il a été arrêté à Palma de Majorque, dans l’archipel des Baléares.
