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Scattered Spider Strikes Again: SaaS Data Theft Skyrockets!
Scattered Spider, a notorious cybercriminal collective, has upped its game by targeting SaaS applications and creating new virtual machines for persistence. They use social engineering, SMS phishing, and SIM swapping to gain access and steal data without ransomware. Mandiant highlights their expanded tactics and offers…
Hot Take:
***Scattered Spider seems to be the cyber equivalent of a loosely organized crime syndicate with a talent for social engineering and a knack for cloud computing. If they were superheroes, they’d be the Avengers of cybercrime, assembled through Discord servers and Telegram channels, wielding phishing hooks instead of shields.***
Key Points:
- Scattered Spider is a collective of cybercriminals using social engineering to infiltrate corporate systems.
- The group has expanded its focus to cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications for data theft and extortion.
- They create new virtual machines to establish persistence and disable security features.
- Scattered Spider uses legitimate cloud tools to exfiltrate data to services like GCP and AWS.
- Mandiant recommends enhanced monitoring and stringent access policies to mitigate these threats.
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