Leading members of Scattered Spider sentenced in UK to 66 months in jail
2026-07-17T14:51:42Z•dfbfcf9b34e2f03dce334de152f576f5cdaeef5ae627f17b1509485f28e09023
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What happened
This collection of CyberScoop items covers multiple high-impact cyber developments: UK courts sentenced Scattered Spider leaders Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers to 66 months for directing many attacks tied to The Com; U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and operators of Media Land/ML.Cloud for running bulletproof hosting that allegedly enabled intrusions causing over $62M in losses; SonicWall customers are at risk as attackers chained and exploited two zero-days before vendor disclosure and patching; researchers warned that Google Chrome’s sync feature can be abused for stalking and spying
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- cyberscoop
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- dfbfcf9b34e2f03dce334de152f576f5cdaeef5ae627f17b1509485f28e09023
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- 2026-07-17T14:51:42Z
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- Yes
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