‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty
2026-04-28T01:23:26Z•ea5e5f99dcbd038a4ebea1fb3f64e340c7cc59aadb3fb3260b9dff400a893221
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KrebsOnSecurity coverage (Mar–Apr 2026) highlights multiple high-impact cyber incidents and threat trends: a senior Scattered Spider member (“Tylerb”) pleaded guilty for smishing-enabled intrusions and crypto theft; Microsoft released large Patch Tuesday updates (April) addressing 167 vulnerabilities including a SharePoint zero-day and a Windows Defender flaw dubbed “BlueHammer”; Google Chrome and Adobe addressed actively exploited zero-days; Russian state-linked actors abused legacy router flaws to harvest Microsoft Office authentication tokens from >18,000 networks; German authorities unmask
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