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haven't got a recent backup have long gone, replaced by what is commonly known as a double extortion tactic. This is what the FBI warned of in the Scattered Spider advisory, where the attackers steal your data before encrypting it. Sonicwall Firewalls Hit by Active Mass Exploitation of Suspected Zero-Day Cyber

ation leading to Brown's capture. Additional reporting on the story was provided by Associated Press (08/05, Schoenbaum), ABC News (08/05, Shapiro), NewsNation (08/05, Perkins), and USA Today (08/05, Robledo). Former NFL Player Convicted in Large-Scale Dogfighting Operation in Oklahoma The Associated Pres

CYBER DIVISION Continued Reporting: What We Know About the Cybercrime Group Scattered Spider The Cyber Security Dive (07/30, Jones) reported that Scattered Spider, a cybercrime group, uses social-engineering tactics to trick companies into handing over user credentials and bypassing multifactor authentication.

tigation "by providing additional manpower and specialized resources." Additional reporting on the story was provided by CNN (07/30, Faheld, Reiss), NewsNation (07/30, Taub), Fox News (07/30, Shaw), Associated Press (07/30, Demillo), Daily Mail (07/30, Gordon), The Independent (07/30, Hawkinson, Dobkin), A

hree of the Biggest Cybercrime Gangs Around Appear to Be Teaming Up Tech Radar (11/05, Fadilpasic) reported that the three biggest cybercrime gangs, Scattered Spider, Lapsus$, and ShinyHunters, have merged into a federated cybercriminal brand known as SLH, which operates mainly on Telegram and uses Extortion-as-

are any credible information directly with investigators. Additional reporting was provided by USA Today (11/05, Alund), The Sun (11/05, Maracina), NewsNation (11/05, Whiteside), WTTG (FOX-5) (11/05, Sabes), and WKXW-FM (11/05, Alexander). FBI, Task Force Investigating Ohio Home WKBN (CBS-27) (11/05, Gor

g Operations Reuters (11/20, Stempel, Vicens) reported that 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 steal confidential information and cryptocurrency. Martin

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