Cyber gang shifts focus to SaaS apps

‘Scattered Spider’ is targeting vSphere, Salesforce, Crowdstrike and more

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Cyber gang shifts focus to SaaS apps

Cyber gang UNC3944, suspected of being behind the recent attacks on Snowflake and MGM Entertainment, has shifted its focus to attacking SaaS applications, according to Google Cloud’s Mandiant threat intelligence team.

The group, also known as 0ktapus, Octo Tempest, Scatter Swine and Scattered Spider, has evolved from credential harvesting and SIM swapping to data theft and extortion, eschewing ransomware in favo...

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