{"id":18673,"date":"2025-05-01T05:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/how-native-english-scattered-spider-group-linked-to-ms-attack-operate\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T05:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T03:37:15","slug":"how-native-english-scattered-spider-group-linked-to-ms-attack-operate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/how-native-english-scattered-spider-group-linked-to-ms-attack-operate\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018native English\u2019 Scattered Spider group linked to M&amp;S attack operate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity expert says group are \u2018unusual but potently threatening\u2019 coalition of ransomware hackers<\/p>\n<p>If there is one noticeable difference between some members of the Scattered Spider hacking community and their ransomware peers, it will be the accent.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered Spider has been linked to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/apr\/29\/m-and-s-cyber-attack-linked-to-hacking-group-scattered-spider\">cyber-attack on UK retailer Marks &amp; Spencer<\/a>. But unlike other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/jan\/13\/what-is-lockbit-ransomware-and-how-does-it-operate-malware-royal-mail\">ransomware assailants<\/a>, its constituents appear to be native English speakers and are not from Russia or former Soviet states.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/01\/how-native-english-scattered-spider-group-linked-to-ms-attack-operate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/48d2be9606f51b7f9d338309be031e4056704ca0\/0_94_4060_2436\/master\/4060.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6cc1948443787684fd3d7a1b089711e3\" title=\"How \u2018native English\u2019 Scattered Spider group linked to M&amp;S attack operate\" \/>Cybersecurity expert says group are \u2018unusual but potently threatening\u2019 coalition of ransomware hackers<br \/>\nIf there is one noticeable difference between some members of the Scattered Spider hacking community and their ransomware peers, it will be the accent.<br \/>\nScattered Spider has been linked to a cyber-attack on UK retailer Marks &amp; Spencer. But unlike other ransomware assailants, its constituents appear to be native English speakers and are not from Russia or former Soviet states. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity expert says group are \u2018unusual but potently threatening\u2019 coalition of ransomware hackers If there is one noticeable difference between some members of the Scattered Spider hacking community and their ransomware peers, it will be the accent. Scattered Spider has been linked to a cyber-attack on UK retailer Marks &amp; Spencer. But unlike other ransomware &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/how-native-english-scattered-spider-group-linked-to-ms-attack-operate\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How \u2018native English\u2019 Scattered Spider group linked to M&amp;S attack operate<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}