‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
2026-04-26T07:23:28Z•93166096d4a96baf7af72fb34a6627c8f5d083185bc0e8e48266d1bd004ecf3b
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What happened
Multiple high-impact incidents and mitigations were reported: a senior member of the “Scattered Spider” group (Tyler Buchanan, “tylerb”) pleaded guilty for SMS phishing-based intrusions and crypto theft; Microsoft released April Patch Tuesday fixes for 167 vulnerabilities (including a SharePoint zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender flaw dubbed “BlueHammer”), while Chrome and Adobe pushed emergency fixes for actively exploited zero-days; Russian military-linked actors harvested Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >18,000 networks by exploiting known router flaws; German警方/
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- 2026-04-26T07:23:28Z
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- Yes
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