The hacking group responsible for recent attacks on M&S, Qantas and others has ramped up its efforts to phish companies across sectors. Scattered Spider, a sophisticated cyber threat group known for aggressive social engineering and targeted phishing, is broadening its scope, notably targeting aviation alongside enterprise environments. Check Point Research has uncovered specific phishing domain indicators, […]
£47 million was stolen by cybercriminals in a series of phishing attacks on HMRC where cybercriminals posed as taxpayers to claim repayments. HMRC were slow to report the incident. A Treasury Select Committee hearing yesterday heard how the accounts of an estimated 100,000 UK taxpayers were targeted in a series of phishing attacks last year. […]
Mandiant warns that the Scattered Spider cybercriminal group is using “brazen” social engineering attacks to target large enterprise organisations in a wide range of sectors. Specifically, the group targets “organisations with large help desk and outsourced IT functions which are susceptible to their social engineering tactics.” The threat actors impersonate employees and attempt to trick IT […]