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Scattered Spider

Scattered Spider is a cybercriminal group that has been active since at least 2022 targeting customer relationship management and business-process outsourcing (BPO) firms as well as telecommunications and technology companies. During campaigns Scattered Spider has leveraged targeted social-engineering techniques and attempted to bypass popular endpoint security tools.

This Cyber News was published on attack.mitre.org. Publication date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:12:07 +0000


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