‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
2026-04-28T19:23:31Z•2d8fddf5e87a35ca182799bda73fc4d80eea7837ee4cdef4f9fcf314f3f71091
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What happened
April 2026 KrebsOnSecurity highlights multiple high-impact cyber incidents and widespread vulnerabilities: a senior member of the Scattered Spider crew (‘Tylerb’) pleaded guilty to SMS phishing-enabled intrusions that led to hacks of major tech firms and theft of tens of millions in crypto; Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 flaws including a SharePoint Server zero-day and a Windows Defender issue dubbed “BlueHammer” (alongside Google Chrome and Adobe emergency fixes); Russian state-linked actors exploited known router flaws to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >~
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