Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-07-01T07:23:28Z•a342f0821dca3996119baa6c91285d961c75756d8a7e7d93d186484960136bb8
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What happened
A collection of KrebsOnSecurity reports covering several high-impact incidents and trends: two Scattered Spider members pleaded guilty for the August 2024 Transport for London cyberattack; researchers linked the Popa Android TV-box botnet to NetNut/Alarum Technologies, implicating a commercial residential-proxy provider in large-scale abuse; The Gentlemen emerged as a fast-growing ransomware-as-a-service operation with aggressive affiliate economics; Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed nearly 200 bugs (dozens rated critical) with public exploit code for some flaws; attackers abused Metaʼ
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- 2026-07-01T07:23:28Z
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