Tracking Adversaries: Scattered Spider, the BlackCat affiliate

After tracking the cybercrime threat landscape on a
day-to-day basis for over four years now, it’s not that often anymore that
something surprises me. But the latest trend of a suspected English-speaking big game hunting cybercriminal
group, tracked under the moniker as Scattered Spider by CrowdStrike or 0ktapus
by Group-IB, teaming up with a Russian-speaking ransomware group known as
BlackCat (or ALPHV) has caught my attention.

Background on Scattered Spider

CrowdStrike introduced Scattered Spider in December
2022 and shared an …

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