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U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Wednesday against five alleged members of Scattered Spider, a loose-knit community of hackers suspected of breaking into dozens of U.S. companies to ...
Scattered Spider, also referred to as UNC3944 among other names, [1] is a hacking group mostly made up of individuals aged 19 to 22 as of September 2023. The group, whose name was first tagged by cybersecurity researchers, gained notoriety for hacking Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International, two of the largest casino and gambling companies in the United States.
Scattered Spider, also known as UNC3944, comprises hackers based in the United States and UK and has previously targeted telecommunications and business process outsourcing companies, the ...
In a report published by Microsoft late last month, the tech firm quoted Scattered Spider-linked hackers as threatening to kill employees of a victim organization unless they coughed up passwords.
Scattered Spider, an affiliate of ALPHV users (and speculated by some outlets to be a subgroup of ALPHV [20]) made up primarily of British and American hackers, worked with ALPHV in its September 2023 ransomware attacks against MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment, the two largest casino operators and gaming companies in Las ...
In September 2023, [54] Scattered Spider (also known as UNC3944) breached Caesars data through an outside IT vendor via ransomware. [55] and demanded $30 million in ransom. Caesars Entertainment paid half, $15 million.
The FBI warned organizations to guard against the Scattered Spider hacking group, which has breached dozens of American organizations over the past year, stealing their sensitive data for extortion.
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