"Socially Savvy Scattered Spider Traps Cloud Admins in Web"

One of the most dangerous ransomware groups, "Scattered Spider," has been using its clever social engineering approach to launch targeted, sophisticated phishing attacks against financial and insurance companies to steal high-level cloud permissions and deliver ransomware. Scattered Spider has been conducting smishing and vishing attacks to target the accounts of Information Technology (IT) service desk administrators and other high-privileged accounts. According to EclecticIQ researchers, the attackers have used stolen credentials to compromise cloud-based services and access victim environments for ransomware attacks. This article continues to discuss recent findings regarding the Scattered Spider ransomware group.

Dark Reading reports "Socially Savvy Scattered Spider Traps Cloud Admins in Web"

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