Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-06-27T01:23:30Z•b8bf52e904113a65a32c39daa81a88e83ca6d582dc73b1890a87d00f7cc3a623
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What happened
Multiple high-impact security developments reported May–June 2026: a CISA contractor publicly published AWS GovCloud keys and internal secrets on GitHub, triggering a major data‑leak response and Congressional scrutiny; Microsoft issued a record June Patch Tuesday (nearly 200 fixes, ~36 rated critical and at least three with public exploit code); researchers linked the large Android TV box botnet “Popa” to NetNut/Alarum Technologies (residential‑proxy provider); the Scattered Spider actors pleaded guilty in the UK for the August 2024 Transport for London outage; attackers abused Meta’s AI “AI‑
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