Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
2026-06-25T01:23:35Z•ffe3ecddafcf9b1f29666407067ac9910bfbc16e9003a81327780fd5923c3b0d
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What happened
A set of high-impact cyber events and investigations: UK guilty pleas in the Scattered Spider attack that disrupted Transport for London; linkage of the Popa Android TV-box botnet to publicly traded NetNut/Alarum Technologies; profiling of The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service operation; record Microsoft Patch Tuesday (June 2026) fixing nearly 200 bugs including ~36 critical flaws and at least three with public exploits; abuse of Meta’s AI support assistant to hijack Instagram accounts; large-scale arrests and seizure of servers in the Netherlands tied to infrastructure used for Russian cyber-
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- 2026-06-25T01:23:35Z
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