Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-07-02T01:23:28Z•0ac3a0698a42d45220026eea83dedabf4555f4929270a42996f6a7b09db3b143
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What happened
A set of June–May 2026 KrebsOnSecurity reports covering multiple high-impact cyber events: two Scattered Spider members pleaded guilty for an August 2024 attack that crippled Transport for London; researchers tied the Popa Android TV-box botnet to NetNut (Alarum Technologies), implicating a commercial residential-proxy provider in large-scale ad fraud and scraping; reporting probes the likely real-world operator of The Gentlemen ransomware gang; Microsoft shipped a record Patch Tuesday (nearly 200 fixes, ~34 rated critical) with public exploit code for at least three bugs; attackers abusedMeta
Why it matters
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Evidence and limitations
- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
- Record identifier
- 0ac3a0698a42d45220026eea83dedabf4555f4929270a42996f6a7b09db3b143
- Enrichment time
- 2026-07-02T01:23:28Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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