‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty

2026-04-27T01:23:31Zc4fabe0c28e5ff996a7995aa3879eecc055d524a64ce75c43bac488f76cd30cc

What happened

A collection of KrebsOnSecurity posts from Feb–Apr 2026 covering multiple high-impact cyber events: a senior member of the Scattered Spider group pleaded guilty for smishing-enabled intrusions and crypto theft; Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint zero-day and the publicly disclosed Windows Defender flaw “BlueHammer,” while Chrome and Adobe also issued emergency fixes; Russian state-linked actors exploited router flaws to mass-harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >18,000 networks; German authorities identified the operator “UNKN” as a

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c4fabe0c28e5ff996a7995aa3879eecc055d524a64ce75c43bac488f76cd30cc
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2026-04-27T01:23:31Z
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