between Google Workspace and Salesloft Drift pending further investigation,” Google said. There is evidence that the Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters collectives, which appear to have formed some kind of loose hacking alliance, may be behind the...

scripts. Outside of AI developments, the last 12 months saw cloud intrusions increase by 75 per cent, with one group – Scattered Spider – being responsible for 29 per cent of all cloud-conscious intrusions. Attacks involving remote monitoring and access...

their meal preferences. While no group has claimed responsibility, reports suggest that a hacking collective known as Scattered Spider may be behind the attack. When Qantas confirmed the theft of customer data in the cyber attack, the airline stated...

their continued support.” Security analysts believe the attack was likely carried out by a hacking collective known as Scattered Spider, which was behind a recent spate of attacks targeting retailers in the United Kingdom.

numbers and credit card details have not been impacted by the breach – which many experts are attributing to the Scattered Spider hacking collective – Qantas said some data has been compromised. “Our initial investigations show the compromised data...

M&S engaged Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Fenix24 for an investigation into the breach, which has so far concluded that Scattered Spider was behind the incident. Scattered Spider, or Octo Tempest as Microsoft calls them, is a hacking group largely made of...

financially motivated. But we have seen, for example, just to drop a couple of names, Fancy Bear in Russia, we’ve seen Scattered Spider, which is traditionally one of the biggest e-crime actors, being very well versed in targeting cloud environments....

dates. While MGM said it would bolster its cyber defences, the casino giant was breached a second time in 2023 after Scattered Spider, a subsidiary of the ALPHV ransomware gang, gained access to its network through vishing (voice phishing) before...

M&S engaged Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Fenix24 for an investigation into the breach, which has so far concluded that Scattered Spider was behind the incident. Scattered Spider, or Octo Tempest as Microsoft calls them, is a hacking group largely made of...

Additionally, the initial investigation by M&S, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Fenix24 concluded that threat actor Scattered Spider was behind the M&S incident, a group believed to have ties to DragonForce and was found using its ransomware. This may...

Additionally, the initial investigation by M&S, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, and Fenix24 concluded that threat actor Scattered Spider was behind the M&S incident, a group believed to have ties to DragonForce and was found using its ransomware. This may...

CyberNews, M&S CEO Stuart Machin said the threat actors, believed to be either the DragonForce ransomware group or the Scattered Spider hacking collective using DragonForce ransomware, resorted to phishing attacks on the staff of a third-party vendor to...

operation based, we believe, in Asia.” The media has previously accused DragonForce and/or hacking collective Scattered Spider for the incident. “When this happens, you don’t know who the attacker is, and in fact, they never send you a letter signed...

attacks follow a wave of breaches of retailers in the UK and then the US, believed to have been conducted by the Scattered Spider or DragonForce ransomware threat actors. Just last week, UK authorities announced that they had arrested three males – two...

drove high intrusion volumes through voice phishing campaigns before selling access to ransomware operators, while Scattered Spider resumed ransomware operations targeting insurance organisations after a four-month pause earlier in the year. Adam...

attack on identity management company Okta by a subgroup of the notorious ALPHV (aka BlackCat) ransomware group called Scattered Spider, requiring the organisation to take down several of its systems, affecting the operations of its casinos and resorts....

on the apparent casino takedown. Reuters reported on Thursday (14 September) that an ALPHV sub-group known as Scattered Spider was the culprit, according to “two sources familiar with the matter”, while malware researcher vx-underground tweeted details...

those used against the hospitality and entertainment industry in September 2023, a campaign that was claimed by the Scattered Spider threat group. In the case of the previous campaign, the threat actor deployed ALPHV ransomware; however, no ransomware...

most organisations are paying the ransom, there is no indication these attacks will slow down. The cyber crime gang Scattered Spider proved to be a sophisticated threat this past year, using modern techniques such as auto-generation of phishing pages to...

much of its design language from LockBit, has flourished thanks to key affiliates such as Velvet Tempest, NoName, and Scattered Spider moving from the dismantled ALPHV and LockBit ransomware-as-a-aervice (RaaS) operations. According to the report,...