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British police announced the arrest of a 17-year-old teenager. The suspect is considered a member of the hacker group Scattered Spider, which is involved in the attack on the company MGM Resorts, which owns chains of hotels, resorts and casinos around the world.
"We have detained a 17-year-old teenager from Walsall who is associated with an international cybercrime group that targeted large organizations with ransomware and gained illegal access to computer networks," the statement reads. "Officers from the West Midlands Regional Organized Crime Unit, along with officers from the National Crime Agency, in collaboration with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), made the arrest on Thursday (July 18, 2024)."
The teenager was arrested on suspicion of violating the Law on Blackmail and computer Misuse, and then released on bail while the police complete their investigation. It is also reported that various devices were seized from the suspect, which will now be studied for additional evidence.
"We are proud to have helped law enforcement find and arrest one of the alleged perpetrators responsible for the cyberattack on MGM Resorts and many other organizations," MGM representatives say.
The U.K. police department said the arrest is part of a broader investigation by the National Crime Agency and the FBI into an unnamed hacking group. And while law enforcement isn't saying it directly, the hacker group behind the attack on MGM Resorts is Scattered Spider.
Let's remind that Scattered Spider is also known by other names: Starfraud, Octo Tempest, Muddled Libra 0ktapus (Group-IB), UNC3944 (Mandiant) and Scatter Swine (Okta).
It is believed that the group has been active since 2022, and its financially motivated attacks are mainly aimed at organizations working in the field of customer relationship management (CRM), business process outsourcing, telecommunications and technology.
As a rule, the group uses complex schemes using social engineering, which are often associated with the substitution of SIM cards (SIM swap). In particular, Scattered Spider is known for its BlackCat (Alphv), Qilin, and RansomHub ransomware attacks, including against MGM Resorts and the Caesars Entertainment casino chain.
Back in the fall of last year, Mandiant experts warned that Scattered Spider hacked at least 100 organizations, mainly located in the United States and Canada. At the same time, back then, information security experts came to the conclusion that the main composition of Scattered Spider is English-speaking teenagers aged 16 to 22 years, and in general, the group is very similar to Lapsus$, whose participants used similar attack methods and were about the same age.
• Source: https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/...joint-west-midlands-police-and-fbi-operation/
"We have detained a 17-year-old teenager from Walsall who is associated with an international cybercrime group that targeted large organizations with ransomware and gained illegal access to computer networks," the statement reads. "Officers from the West Midlands Regional Organized Crime Unit, along with officers from the National Crime Agency, in collaboration with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), made the arrest on Thursday (July 18, 2024)."
The teenager was arrested on suspicion of violating the Law on Blackmail and computer Misuse, and then released on bail while the police complete their investigation. It is also reported that various devices were seized from the suspect, which will now be studied for additional evidence.
"We are proud to have helped law enforcement find and arrest one of the alleged perpetrators responsible for the cyberattack on MGM Resorts and many other organizations," MGM representatives say.
The U.K. police department said the arrest is part of a broader investigation by the National Crime Agency and the FBI into an unnamed hacking group. And while law enforcement isn't saying it directly, the hacker group behind the attack on MGM Resorts is Scattered Spider.
Let's remind that Scattered Spider is also known by other names: Starfraud, Octo Tempest, Muddled Libra 0ktapus (Group-IB), UNC3944 (Mandiant) and Scatter Swine (Okta).
It is believed that the group has been active since 2022, and its financially motivated attacks are mainly aimed at organizations working in the field of customer relationship management (CRM), business process outsourcing, telecommunications and technology.
As a rule, the group uses complex schemes using social engineering, which are often associated with the substitution of SIM cards (SIM swap). In particular, Scattered Spider is known for its BlackCat (Alphv), Qilin, and RansomHub ransomware attacks, including against MGM Resorts and the Caesars Entertainment casino chain.
Back in the fall of last year, Mandiant experts warned that Scattered Spider hacked at least 100 organizations, mainly located in the United States and Canada. At the same time, back then, information security experts came to the conclusion that the main composition of Scattered Spider is English-speaking teenagers aged 16 to 22 years, and in general, the group is very similar to Lapsus$, whose participants used similar attack methods and were about the same age.
• Source: https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/...joint-west-midlands-police-and-fbi-operation/
