Two Scattered Spider Hackers Sentenced to 5.5 Years for £29 Million TfL Hack
Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court on July…
Tag: social engineering
New MODBEACON RAT Uses gRPC Streaming for Encrypted C2 Traffic
The China-linked cybercrime group Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) called MODBEACON. Chinese cybersecurity company…
Fake Microsoft Entra Passkey Enrollment Used in Voice Phishing Attacks Targeting M365 Users
A sophisticated threat actor tracked as O-UNC-066 by Okta is targeting organizations across multiple sectors with a voice-based phishing (vishing) scheme that…
LAPSUS$: Notorious Cyber Extortion Group
LAPSUS$ is a cyber extortion group that has targeted major corporations. As part of The Com collective, they have been associated with…
Google Voice Used for Social Engineering in Scattered Spider Attack
Attackers used Google Voice numbers to call the retailer's IT help desk, impersonating locked-out employees to reset passwords and MFA devices.
Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker in Jewelry Retailer Breach
U.S. prosecutors have linked an alleged member of the Scattered Spider cybercriminal group to a May 2025 intrusion at a luxury jewelry…
Suspected China-Nexus Hackers Use Fake Indian Tax Filing Utility to Deploy DcRAT
A suspected China-nexus threat activity cluster, codenamed Operation DragonReturn by Seqrite Labs, has been targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance…
19-Year-Old Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to Face U.S. Hacking Charges
A 19-year-old alleged member of the Scattered Spider hacking group, Peter Stokes, has been extradited from Finland to the United States to…
Octo Tempest: Alias for Scattered Spider Cybercriminal Group
Octo Tempest is an alternative tracking name for the Scattered Spider extortion crew, used by threat intelligence firms to identify the group's…
UNC3944: Mandiant’s Tracking Name for Scattered Spider
UNC3944 is Mandiant's designation for the threat actor group known as Scattered Spider. The group has been involved in numerous high-profile extortion…