Mandiant warns casino raiders are doubling down on 'monetization strategies'
Scattered Spider, the crew behind at least one of the recent Las Vegas casino IT security breaches, has already hit some 100 organizations during its so-far brief tenure in the cybercrime scene, according to Mandiant., the gang, known for its social-engineering-based attacks, is now throwing data-stealing ransomware at victims, too.this week into Scattered Spider's evolving tactics, Mandiant says the"expansion in the group's monetization strategies" began in mid-2023.
The Google-owned threat intel firm tracks Scattered Spider as UNC3944. Its comments on the crime gang are significant because Mandiant is one the top incident response teams called in to clean up the messes made by such high-profile intruders. "These changes in their end goals signal that the industries targeted by UNC3944 will continue to expand," the analysis says."Mandiant has already directly observed their targeting broaden beyond telecommunication and business process outsourcer companies to a wide range of industries including hospitality, retail, media and entertainment, and financial services.
First, Scattered Spider sent text messages to the employees with malicious links to sites spoofing their company's authentication page. This allowed the gang to steal some 9,931 user credentials and 5,441 multi-factor authentication codes, we're told.
Then, beginning in the third quarter of 2022, Mandiant said Scattered Spider began using a new kit that it built using scraped copies of targeted companies' authentication page."Notably, this kit has been used in some of the recent intrusions that led to extortion attempts," the threat intel team said.
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