Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-06-28T01:23:30Z•3b4c405e3e49fb7b62424b853367c7367ea28132b6e65ab78ec337f57a19f6e7
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What happened
The feed summarizes multiple high-impact cyber incidents: two alleged Scattered Spider members pleaded guilty in the U.K. for an August 2024 attack that disrupted Transport for London; researchers linked the Popa Android TV-box botnet to NetNut/Alarum Technologies (a publicly traded residential-proxy provider); reporting on The Gentlemen ransomware outlines clues to the operators’ real-world identity; Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed nearly 200 vulnerabilities (≈36 rated critical) with public exploit code for at least three flaws; attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to take
Why it matters
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- 2026-06-28T01:23:30Z
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