Two Scattered Spider Members Sentenced to Prison Over £29 Million TfL Cyberattack

2026-07-17T02:51:48Z68ca97012803cfd8d3131e54919ad6f2b33ce432aa75ed512664b953b2ea4004
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What happened

This feed aggregates multiple high-impact security stories from mid-July 2026: two alleged Scattered Spider members were jailed for a £29M TfL attack; Unit 42 disclosed TuxBot v3, an AI-assisted modular IoT botnet targeting 17 architectures; a Chinese cyber-espionage campaign used Claude Code and DeepSeek automation; Zoom patched a critical account-takeover vulnerability (CVE-2026-53412, CVSS 9.8); US/allied guidance warns Russian APTs are targeting network devices; Chaotic Eclipse published a LegacyHive PoC for a Windows ProfSvc privilege-escalation affecting fully-patched systems; the AsyncA

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