‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
2026-04-23T19:23:37Z•17474c4a766e261de75d4b983ba4fa3237123351a7c5a2395f2b0720a456e2b1
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What happened
Collection of April–March 2026 KrebsOnSecurity reports: A senior Scattered Spider member (Tyler Robert Buchanan / “Tylerb”) pled guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for SMS-phishing that helped the group breach multiple tech firms and steal cryptocurrency. Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 flaws (including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender issue dubbed “BlueHammer”); Google Chrome and Adobe Reader received emergency fixes for actively exploited zero-days/RCEs. Russian state-linked actors exploited known router vulnerabilities to mass‑
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- krebs_on_security
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- 2026-04-23T19:23:37Z
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