What We Know About the Cybercrime Group Scattered Spider

What we know about the cybercrime group Scattered Spider

The notorious hacker collective has attracted the attention of government authorities in several nations around the globe.

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Scattered Spider, also known as Muddled Libra, Octo Tempest, Scatter Swine and UNC3944, is a group of cybercriminals who specialize in using social-engineering tactics to trick companies into handing over user credentials and bypassing multifactor authentication, opening the door for the group to establish persistence, steal company data and demand ransom payments. The FBI and […]

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Tangled in the web: Scattered Spider’s tactics changing to snare more victims

Scattered Spider is using fresh tactics to snare more victims in its web. Governments around the globe are warning that the hacker group is impersonating employees to trick IT help desks into resetting passwords and transferring multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens to attacker-controlled devices. This then allows them to carry out damaging extortion and ransomware campaigns. “Scattered Spider is successful because of their expert use of soci…