The empty grocery store The shelves and ground aircraft tend to refer to a crisis, whether it is Harsh weather eventand Public health crisisOr Geopolitical. But these chaos scenes in recent weeks in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada have caused electronic -motivated electronic attacks – committed by a group of teenagers of joy.
The notorious Cybercriminal collection is often known as the scattered spider using social engineering techniques to infiltrate the targeted companies by deceiving workers in the IT office in granting them to reach the system. The researchers say that the group seems to have experience about the background systems that companies use in a specific industry, then this knowledge is used to strike a set of goals before moving to another sector. The group often publishes ransom programs or performs data extortion attacks once its victims are at risk.
Amid increasing pressure from the application of the law last year, which reached its climax Accusation Five suspects He claims that researchers are associated with scattered spiders, he says that the group was less active in 2024 and appears to be trying to put low. Nevertheless, the rising attacks of the group in recent weeks have shown that, away from the defeat, the scattered spider is encouraged again.
“There are some unique skilled actors in the scattered spider when it comes to social engineering, and they have identified a large gap in our security systems that they successfully benefit from,” says John Holtachetist, the chief analyst of the Google Group threat group. “This group carries out serious attacks on our critical infrastructure, and I hope we do not lose the opportunity to address the most imminent threats.”
Although a number of incidents were not publicly attributed, a huge boom of recent attacks on the chains of grocery stores in the United Kingdom, North America Insurance companiesInternational Airlines is widely connected to scattered spider. In May, the UK National Crime Agency certain She was searching for spider spider in relation to attacks on British retailers. Federal Investigation Office to caution On Friday alert, the “Cybercriminal Scattercated Spider, whose targeting is expanded to include the aviation sector” noticed. The warning came like North American aircraft West and Hawaii Airlines They said they were victims of online breaches. Wednesday, Australian Airlines Cantas He also said that he was attacked, although it was not immediately clear whether this attack was part of the group’s campaign.
“They slowed down, and we have seen them being dissipated for a while throughout 2024,” says Adam Myers, Senior Vice President of Anti -Operations at Crowdstrike. “Then they reviewed in the past two months, first hit the retail trade, then hit insurance companies and targeted airlines recently.”
Spider, spread for the first time as a high -level group at the end of 2023 with the transfer of its members from SIM! To launch broken ransom attacks on Caesar’s Entertainment and MGM Resorts. The last cost mgm is around it $ 100 million to recover from. The researchers emphasize that the collective is financially driven, and it consists of English -speaking and young adolescents who are often in the United States or the United Kingdom. Specified spider infiltrators It is considered a branch of comAn unexplained network of thousands of consultants and criminals, and many of them participate in harassment, extortion and exploitation of children.
