Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-06-29T01:23:27Z•a8333ea6e51b150ffb37bd1de3772fb2b1dda5aa6b3c35e9f7e52f035e1f98f2
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What happened
This KrebsOnSecurity feed (May–June 2026) highlights multiple high-impact cyber incidents: two members of the Scattered Spider group pleaded guilty for an August 2024 Transport for London outage; researchers tied the four‑year Popa Android TV‑box botnet to NetNut/Alarum Technologies (NASDAQ: ALAR); reporting profiles the administrator of the fast‑growing ransomware gang “The Gentlemen”; Microsoft issued a record Patch Tuesday (nearly 200 fixes, ~36 rated critical, some with public exploit code); attackers abused Meta’s AI support assistant to hijack high‑profile Instagram accounts; Dutch law‑e
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- Source ID
- krebs_on_security
- Record identifier
- a8333ea6e51b150ffb37bd1de3772fb2b1dda5aa6b3c35e9f7e52f035e1f98f2
- Enrichment time
- 2026-06-29T01:23:27Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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