On July 29, 2025, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Australian Signals Directorate, and the Australian Federal Police and National Cyber Security Centre, issued an updated advisory on threat actor Scattered Spider, which
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FBI Warns Airline and Transportation Sectors About Scattered Spider
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…These actors rely on social engineering techniques, often impersonating employees or contractors to deceive IT help desks into granting
U.S. Retailers Bracing for Scattered Spider Attacks
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Google sent out a warning that the cybercriminal group Scattered Spider is targeting U.S.-based retailers. Scattered Spider is believed to have been responsible for the recent attack on Marks & Spencer in the U.K. A security researcher at Google has posited that Scattered Spider concentrates attacks on one industry at a time and predicts that…
Scattered Spider Using RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware Against Victims
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Posted in Data Privacy, Data Security
We previously reported on the concerning mash-up of worldwide cybercriminals, known as Scattered Spider, working together to attack victims.
New reports from Microsoft and others indicate that since the second quarter of 2024, Scattered Spider is now using RansomHub and Qilin ransomware against victims. Scattered Spider is suspected of attacking hundreds of organizations since its…
New Threat: Scattered Spider International Coalition of Hackers
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Posted in Cybersecurity
Cyber adversaries in China and Russia continue to be a formidable threat to U.S. based companies. In the past, scams might be detected because a word was misspelled or the context didn’t make sense. Now, with the help of young Western hackers, cyber adversaries in Russia will be able to use insider knowledge of language…