Scattered Spider hacker pleads guilty to stealing $8 million in cryptocurrency
2026-04-21T14:51:48Z•5b73b38744ded6d72b274e1e4f04bdb35048406c0ed6337e51a015d963634a1c
AI securityAndroid malwareCISA KEVCisco Catalyst SD‑WANContext.aiHandyPayMPCNFC fraudNGateOpenAI ChronicleProxySmartSIM farmSMS phishingScattered SpiderVercelcryptocurrency theftencrypted inferencemobile proxyphishingprivacysupply‑chain compromisethird‑party breachvulnerabilities
What happened
Feed highlights multiple high-impact security developments: a British national tied to the Scattered Spider group pleaded guilty for SMS phishing that stole over $8M in cryptocurrency; CISA added a Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Manager vulnerability (CVE-2026-20133) to its KEV catalog alongside two other SD‑WAN flaws (CVE-2026-20128, CVE-2026-20122) being actively exploited; Vercel experienced a breach after a third‑party AI tool (Context.ai) was compromised, exposing some internal systems and customer credentials; an investigation found a ProxySmart platform powering SIM‑farm mobile proxy networks in
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