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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Scattered Spider Hops Nimbly From Cloud to On-Prem in Complex Attack - The group behind the high-profile MGM cyberattack in September has resurfaced in yet another sophisticated ransomware attack, in which the actor pivoted from a third-party service environment to the target organization's on-premise network in only an ...
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As the FBI Closes In, Scattered Spider Attacks Finance, Insurance Orgs - Scattered Spider hackers have been tearing through the finance and insurance sectors, all while authorities are preparing legal actions to stop them. A game of cops and robbers is playing out between the FBI and Scattered Spider, the cybercrime ...
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Scattered Spider Employs Sophisticated Attacks to Steal Login Credentials & MFA Tokens - To counter this threat, Silent Push has developed Indicators of Future Attack (IOFA) feeds that track Scattered Spider infrastructure, including recently observed domains like “klv1.it.com” targeting Klaviyo and multiple others ...
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Hackers behind UK retail attacks now targeting US companies - Scattered Spider (also tracked as 0ktapus, UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Starfraud, and Muddled Libra) is a term used to describe a fluid collective of threat actors known for breaching many high-profile organizations worldwide in sophisticated ...
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Scattered Spider Malware Targeting Klaviyo, HubSpot, and Pure Storage Services - Security teams should be particularly vigilant for suspicious authentication attempts, unknown devices connecting to corporate networks, and unusual account activity patterns that might indicate successful credential theft through Scattered ...
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Scattered Spider Attacking Finance & Insurance Industries - Hackers very frequently target the finance and insurance sectors due to the large volumes of sensitive data that they own. These areas manage huge quantities of valuable as well as critical financial information, personal identities, and intellectual ...
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Scattered Spider member pleads guilty to identity theft, wire fraud charges | The Record from Recorded Future News - Urban, who goes by the alias "Sosa," “Elijah,” and “King Bob” was "part of a group of loosely organized individuals who engage in account takeovers and [stole] cryptocurrency from online exchanges" from August 2022 through ...
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Scattered Spider Hackers Actively Attacking Aviation and Transportation Firms - Charles Carmakal, Chief Technology Officer at Mandiant Consulting-Google Cloud, confirmed that his company is “aware of multiple incidents in the airline and transportation sector which resemble the operations of UNC3944 or Scattered ...
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Marks & Spencer breach linked to Scattered Spider ransomware attack - Scattered Spider, also known as 0ktapus, Starfraud, UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Octo Tempest, and Muddled Libra, is a group of threat actors that are adept at using social engineering attacks, phishing, ...
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Clorox says cyberattack caused $49 million in expenses - Clorox has confirmed that a September 2023 cyberattack has so far cost the company $49 million in expenses related to the response to the incident. Clorox is an American manufacturer of consumer and professional cleaning products with 8,700 employees ...
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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 ...
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Google says hackers behind UK retail cyber campaign now also targeting US | The Record from Recorded Future News - Scattered Spider is the name used to track a loosely affiliated cybercriminal group previously described by the FBI as an offshoot of a larger criminal subculture calling itself “the Community,” or “the Com.” While Google suspects links ...
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FBI warns on Scattered Spider hackers, urges victims to come forward - Caesars Entertainment Inc MGM Resorts International Microsoft Corp SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 - The FBI warned organizations to guard against the Scattered Spider hacking group, which has breached dozens of American organizations over the past year, ...
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Microsoft seizes websites used to sell phony email accounts The Register - Microsoft has taken down US-based infrastructure and websites used by a cybercrime group to sell fraudulent online accounts to other crooks including Scattered Spider, the infamous social-engineering and extortion crew that hacked two Las Vegas ...
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