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#scatteredspider

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Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:

(exclusive):

ShinyHunters sent Google an extortion demand; Shiny comments on current activities

In a long chat yesterday, Shiny touched on Google, France, Australia and the Qantas injunction, and the NSA's alleged attempts at voice analysis:

databreaches.net/2025/08/08/sh

#ShinyHunters #ScatteredSpider #Salesforce #Google #LVMH #Qantas

@campuscodi @lawrenceabrams @zackwhittaker @euroinfosec @kevincollier

Spidey
DataBreaches.Net · ShinyHunters sent Google an extortion demand; Shiny comments on current activities – DataBreaches.NetYesterday morning, DataBreaches woke up to a message on Telegram: Even the NSA can't stop or identify us anymore. The FBI and everyone else is irrelevant and in
Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:

Are Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters one group or two? And who did France arrest?

It's been a wild weekend here trying to sort out the relationship between #ShinyHunters and #ScatteredSpider. And then, to really blow my mind, I heard from the leader of ShinyHunters (or someone claiming to be him) and no, he's not in prison in France.

If I was trolled, it's absolutely an amazingly good troll. But see what you think.

databreaches.net/2025/08/03/ar

#attribution #arrest

@lawrenceabrams @campuscodi
@zackwhittaker

databreaches.netAre Scattered Spider and ShinyHunters one group or two? And who did France arrest? – DataBreaches.Net
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Charl van der Walt 🌻🇵🇸

@patrickcmiller I wonder if any of #scatteredspider’s success with more nuanced and sophisticated social engineering vectors can be attributed to a cultural advantage they get from being raised in developed western English speaking countries. Do they know how people and systems think and work in the west simply because they are raised there and just “get” it…?

PrivacyDigest

#UK Charges Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ #Ransom Group

Authorities in the #UnitedKingdom this week arrested four alleged members of “Scattered Spider,” a prolific data theft and #extortion group whose recent victims include multiple airlines and the U.K. retail chain Marks & Spencer.
#privacy #scatteredspider

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/uk

krebsonsecurity.comUK Arrests Four in ‘Scattered Spider’ Ransom Group – Krebs on Security
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Emory

@briankrebs i've seen some IR figures get squirrely about the name. some argue Scattered Spider is a loose confederation, others an attack methodology. i don't have a strong opinion on that but i've seen the absolute bedlam these crews drop everywhere they go. #infosec #scatteredSpider

Richi Jennings

Three teenage males and a young woman hauled away by cops, suspected of hacking huge retailers.

Four youngsters are in custody today, alleged to be the notorious #ScatteredSpider hackers (or at least, some of them). The “loose affiliation” of hackers is suspected of badly disrupting operations at three large retail chains since April.

The four are innocent until proven guilty. In #SBBlogwatch, we channel Sir William Garrow.

@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/

Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:

Even more arrests! Reuters reports:

Four people have been arrested as part of a police investigation into cyberattacks that disrupted the operations of retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Harrods, Britain's National Crime Agency said.

The cyberattack on M&S was the most serious, costing it about 300 million pounds ($409 million) in lost operating profit.

The NCA said two males aged 19, another aged 17, and a 20-year-old female were apprehended in the West Midlands, central England, and London on Thursday on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences, blackmail, money laundering and participating in the activities of an organised crime group.

More at reuters.com/business/retail-co

#ScatteredSpider#hack#extortion
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Richi Jennings

M&S head Archie Norman won’t say if he authorized #DragonForce #ransomware hacker payday.

British shopping titan M&S is still dealing with the mess caused by April’s #ransomware attack. There’s at least three months more work ahead says the firm’s chairman, Archie Norman (pictured).

But there are persistent rumors M&S paid #ScatteredSpider’s ransom demand. In #SBBlogwatch, Norman will neither confirm nor deny.

@TheFuturumGroup @TechstrongGroup @SecurityBlvd: securityboulevard.com/2025/07/

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