Feds Tie ‘Scattered Spider’ Duo to $115M in Ransoms
Summary: U.S. prosecutors charged 19-year-old U.K. national Thalha Jubair as an alleged core member of Scattered Spider, a group blamed for extorting at least $115 million in ransom payments, while he and 18-year-old Owen Flowers appeared in a London court over attacks on U.K. retailers, the London transit system, and U.S. healthcare providers. Prosecutors in New Jersey tied Jubair to the handles EarthtoStar, Brad, Austin, and Austistic, and to a 2022 SMS phishing campaign that mimicked employer Okta login pages and led to intrusions at more than 130 organizations including LastPass, DoorDash, Mailchimp, Plex and Signal.
What you should know: A group prosecutors describe as two teenagers and their chat-room collaborators is blamed for $115 million in ransoms, with one Telegram account alone tied to at least 70 of over 100 claimed break-ins at T-Mobile in the last seven months of 2022.
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