‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
2026-04-22T19:23:32Z•dc8755870f881dd2332f771455deff731fc635e94704ae5ef5d6db20e12087a7
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What happened
Collection of KrebsOnSecurity reporting (Feb–Apr 2026) covering multiple high-impact cyber incidents: a senior member of the Scattered Spider SMS-phishing crew pleaded guilty after helping hack major tech firms and steal cryptocurrency; Microsoft’s April Patch Tuesday fixed 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint zero-day and a publicly disclosed Windows Defender flaw (“BlueHammer”), while Chrome and Adobe issued emergency fixes for actively exploited zero-days/RCEs; Russian state-linked actors exploited legacy router flaws to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from over 18,000+
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- krebs_on_security
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- 2026-04-22T19:23:32Z
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