‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
2026-04-29T01:23:31Z•8c5b6afe71e357a1917ad17029fe8e8c5eabc430df4266f35908b3796638876e
Adobe ReaderAisuruBlueHammerCanisterWormChrome zero-dayDDoSIoT botnetsJackSkidKimwolfMicrosoft Office tokensMicrosoft Patch TuesdayMossadRussian military intelligenceSMS phishingScattered SpiderSharePoint zero-dayTyler Robert BuchananTylerbWindows Defendercryptocurrency theftphishingremote code executionrouter vulnerabilitiestoken theftwiper malware
What happened
Collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports (Feb–Apr 2026) describing multiple high-impact cyber incidents: a senior Scattered Spider member pled guilty to SMS phishing that enabled break-ins at major tech firms and theft of tens of millions in crypto; Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 vulnerabilities (including a SharePoint zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender flaw dubbed “BlueHammer”), while Chrome and Adobe issued emergency fixes for actively exploited zero-days; Russian military-linked actors harvested Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >18,000 networks by abusing/
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