FBI, CISA Warn About Scattered Spider’s Evolving Tactics

FBI, CISA warn about Scattered Spider’s evolving tactics

International authorities are pursuing the group following the arrests of four suspects in a series of attacks targeting British retailers.

Scattered Spider Targeting VMware vSphere Environments

Scattered Spider hijacks VMware hypervisors via social engineering Scattered Spider has shifted its operations to target VMware vSphere environments, gaining full control of ESXi hypervisors and the vCenter Server Appliance. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group has outlined a five-phase attack chain that moves from initial access and reconnaissance to hypervisor heist, backup sabotage, and ransomware execution […] The post Scattered Spider Targeti…

Scattered Spider Launching Ransomware on Hijacked VMware Systems, Google

A new report from Google's GTIG reveals how UNC3944 (0ktapus) uses social engineering to compromise Active Directory, then exploits VMware vSphere for data theft and direct ransomware deployment. Understand their tactics and learn vital mitigation steps.

Scattered Spider hackers are targeting US critical infrastructure via VMware attacks - WorldNL Magazine

(Image credit: Getty Images) Google warns of ScatteredSpider's advanced social engineering tacticsThe hackers gain privileged access and use it to deploy ransomwareThe group targets critical infrastructure, retail, airline, and other industriesThe infamous ScatteredSpider ransomware group is using VMware instances to target critical infrastructure organizations in the US, researchers have warned.Security researchers from Google Threat Intellige…