𝙎𝘾𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙎𝙋𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙍 𝙃𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙂𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙋

🕷 𝙂𝙇𝙊𝘽𝘼𝙇 𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙍𝙏: 𝙎𝘾𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙎𝙋𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙍 𝙃𝘼𝘾𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝙂𝙍𝙊𝙐𝙋

Authorities around the world have issued urgent warnings about Scattered Spider a rapidly evolving cybercriminal group targeting major organizations with ransomware and social engineering attacks.

🕷️ 𝙒𝙃𝘼𝙏 𝙄𝙎 𝙎𝘾𝘼𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙀𝘿 𝙎𝙋𝙄𝘿𝙀𝙍?

Scattered Spider poses as employees or contractors to fool IT help desks and gain unauthorized access. Once inside, they:

🔓 Infiltrate internal networks

🧠 Trick staff using sophisticated impersonation tactics

🔁 Bypass multifactor authentication

💣 Deploy ransomware to cripple operations

Industries hit include retail, insurance, airlines, tech, and finance costing millions in damage and downtime.

🛡️ 𝙃𝙊𝙒 𝙏𝙊 𝙎𝙏𝘼𝙔 𝙎𝘼𝙁𝙀

🧾 Verify all identities before granting IT access

🧠 Train employees to detect impersonation and phishing

🔍 Audit systems and third-party vendors regularly

🔐 Enforce strong MFA with extra monitoring for unusual activity

📢 𝙍𝙀𝙋𝙊𝙍𝙏 𝙎𝙐𝙎𝙋𝙄𝘾𝙄𝙊𝙐𝙎 𝘼𝘾𝙏𝙄𝙑𝙄𝙏𝙔

🇦🇺 Australia – cyber.gov.au

🇨🇦 Canada – Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre   antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca

🇺🇸 USA – reportfraud.ftc.gov

🇬🇧 UK – Action Fraud  actionfraud.police.uk

🌍 Global – icpen.org

For more information of Scattered Spider, check out this joint release

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-320a

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