A persistent hacking crew of young men and teenagers is back with a vengeance, wielding a two-year-old playbook to knock U.S. corporate systems offline. Why it matters: Scattered Spider hasn't had to ...

Rogue teens have attacked some 120 companies—including Nike, Chick-fil-A, Instacart, and News Corporation—often posing as IT ...

A London teenager is facing a maximum 95 years in prison for allegedly calling company help desks and convincing employees to reset passwords in a massive campaign to steal data and hold it for ransom ...

Scattered Spider continues to dominate the headlines, with the latest news linking the hackers to attacks on U.S. insurance giant Aflac, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and Erie Insurance, disclosed ...

With the recent attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op, so-called Scattered Spider has been all over the media, with coverage spilling over into the mainstream news due to the severity of ...

A new wave of attacks on organizations in the aviation sector by members of "Scattered Spider" has drawn fresh attention to what Microsoft and others consider one of the most dangerous financially ...

IT services provider Cognizant is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from one of its customers, which claims lax security procedures enabled the Scattered Spider hacking collective – blamed for the ...

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 25: The Aflac Duck rings the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on February 25, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) When you hear the name Aflac ...

As a major international cybercrime organization known as Scattered Spider sets its sights squarely on the insurance industry, a former FBI agent and current head of cyber practice at Kroll is warning ...

A cyber security incident at Australian airline Qantas originating through the compromise of a third-party contact centre is being tentatively linked to an ongoing campaign of cyber attacks ...