Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-06-29T07:23:27Z•ac4153c1c4acc2758d71b272d0471d70fb076679ff123bef62b21750a6a8cb4b
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What happened
KrebsOnSecurity collected multiple high-impact cyber incidents from May–June 2026: guilty pleas by Scattered Spider members for the August 2024 Transport for London attack; researchers linking the Popa Android TV-box botnet to NetNut/Alarum Technologies; emergence and attribution clues around The Gentlemen ransomware operation; a record Microsoft June Patch Tuesday fixing ~200 flaws (dozens critical and multiple with public exploit code); social-engineering abuse of Meta’s AI support bot to seize Instagram accounts; large-scale leaks of CISA AWS GovCloud credentials published by a contractor;,
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- 2026-06-29T07:23:27Z
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- Yes
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