‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
2026-04-27T13:23:27Z•da2ab661a4ee77b521e326baa3ab1bb10d796098ba39875ace4ef50d1407a127
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What happened
A series of high-impact cyber incidents and disclosures reported by KrebsOnSecurity: a senior Scattered Spider member (Tyler Robert Buchanan) pleaded guilty to text-message phishing, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft; Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender issue dubbed “BlueHammer,” while Google Chrome and Adobe issued emergency fixes for actively exploited flaws. Separately, Russia-linked actors abused known router flaws to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from over 18,000 nets; U
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