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An office environment with an employee at a computer appearing to provide unauthorized access credentials to someone off-screen, with sensitive network diagrams
Identity & Access

Ransomware Gangs Are Now Paying Insiders to Unlock the Front Door

Criminal groups are bribing employees to hand over company access rather than hacking their way in. It is cheaper, faster, and harder to detect, and the insider threat problem is getting worse.

4 min read
A hospital help desk phone with a caller's voice creating visible waves of social engineering reaching toward a computer displaying SSO login credentials
Identity & Access

ShinyHunters Are Phoning Hospital Help Desks: Health-ISAC Sounds the Alarm

A wave of voice-phishing calls is tricking healthcare staff into handing over single sign-on access, and the data theft is following fast.

3 min read
A UK courtroom interior with the judge's bench and witness stand visible, austere and formal, representing the conclusion of a major cybercrime case
Threat Intelligence

Two Scattered Spider Members Jailed in UK's Largest Ever Cybercrime Prosecution

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers each received five and a half years in prison for a 2024 attack on Transport for London that cost the city £29 million.

3 min read
Illustration: a darkened luxury jewelry display case at night
Threat Intelligence

A Windows Device ID Helped Trace an Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker to a Jewelry Heist

Federal prosecutors say a single hardware identifier tied a May 2025 intrusion at a luxury retailer to the online accounts of a 19-year-old.

4 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Scattered Spider Suspect, 19, Extradited From Finland to Chicago

Peter Stokes, a dual U.S.-Estonian citizen, faces conspiracy, intrusion and fraud charges tied to the loose-knit crew behind a string of high-profile enterprise breaches.

3 min read
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Threat Intelligence

Week in Brief: Russia's Cellebrite Use, Five Eyes AI Warning, macOS Backdoor, Scattered Spider Pleas

State-backed mobile forensics against an activist, an intelligence alliance's AI advisory, a new Mac implant, and a cybercrime case moving toward sentencing.

2 min read
Illustration: A darkened corporate server room with rack lights glowing blue and amber, one rack door slightly ajar
Identity & Access

Account Takeovers Still Outrunning Detection, Vendors Push Behavioral AI as Answer

Compromised credentials remain the cheapest entry point on criminal marketplaces. A new webinar argues behavioral models, not static rules, are the only way to close the gap.

3 min read
Illustration: an empty modern IT help desk workstation at night, glowing monitors showing abstract ticket queues
Identity & Access

The Service Desk Is the New Phishing Inbox

Help desks keep getting talked out of MFA resets. The fix is less about training and more about treating identity verification like an auth protocol.

3 min read
Illustration: a darkened London Underground platform at night
Identity & Access

Two Scattered Spider Members Plead Guilty as London Trial Opens

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers admitted roles in the TfL intrusion and a SIM-swap and SMS-phishing operation that turned harvested SSO credentials into nine-figure ransom payouts.

3 min read
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