Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-06-25T13:23:33Z•9a71805716a596952f8741b873803bd389bb254d747fbd21e4e4b1464fb99a94
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What happened
This collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports (May–Jun 2026) highlights multiple high-impact cyber incidents: two Scattered Spider members pled guilty for the August 2024 Transport for London outage; the long-running Android TV-box Popa botnet has been linked to NetNut (Alarum Technologies, NASDAQ: ALAR), implicating a commercial residential-proxy provider in large-scale ad fraud, scraping and account-takeovers; investigators are closing in on the administrator behind The Gentlemen ransomware gang; Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed nearly 200 vulnerabilities (dozens rated critical and at‑
Why it matters
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- krebs_on_security
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- 9a71805716a596952f8741b873803bd389bb254d747fbd21e4e4b1464fb99a94
- Enrichment time
- 2026-06-25T13:23:33Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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