A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role …
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Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even swatting …
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Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’ – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” has dominated headlines this year by regularly stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the …
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Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
U.S. prosecutors last week levied criminal hacking charges against 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair for allegedly being a core member of Scattered Spider, a prolific cybercrime group blamed for extorting …
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SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years – Krebs on Security
by David Walker
A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly …