{"id":18887,"date":"2025-05-21T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/scattered-spider-is-focus-of-nca-inquiry-into-cyber-attacks-against-uk-retailers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:38:08","slug":"scattered-spider-is-focus-of-nca-inquiry-into-cyber-attacks-against-uk-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/scattered-spider-is-focus-of-nca-inquiry-into-cyber-attacks-against-uk-retailers\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Spider is focus of NCA inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives say English-speaking hacker community a key suspect after M&amp;S, Co-op and Harrods targeted<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2025\/may\/21\/uk-inflation-forecast-jumped-april-higher-household-bills-reeves-g7-canada-business-live\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A hacker community known as Scattered Spider is a key suspect in a criminal inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers including Marks &amp; Spencer, detectives have said.<\/p>\n<p>Scattered Spider, a loose collective of native English-speaking cybercriminals, has been strongly linked with hacks against M&amp;S, the Co-op and Harrods. M&amp;S said on Wednesday it will take an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/21\/cyber-attack-cost-marks-and-spencer-lost-sales-company-results-reveal\">\u00a3300m hit to profits<\/a> after its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2025\/may\/03\/inside-the-marks-and-spencer-cyber-attack-chaos\">systems were hacked<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/may\/21\/scattered-spider-national-crime-agency-inquiry-cyber-attacks-uk-retailers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2f5192aac7fcb639fe22750fe3eee27f35e061c7\/158_0_3083_2467\/master\/3083.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6860f18a354d5c421d9c86c6a78d7bc2\" title=\"Scattered Spider is focus of NCA inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers\" \/>Detectives say English-speaking hacker community a key suspect after M&amp;S, Co-op and Harrods targeted<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nA hacker community known as Scattered Spider is a key suspect in a criminal inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers including Marks &amp; Spencer, detectives have said.<br \/>\nScattered Spider, a loose collective of native English-speaking cybercriminals, has been strongly linked with hacks against M&amp;S, the Co-op and Harrods. M&amp;S said on Wednesday it will take an estimated \u00a3300m hit to profits after its systems were hacked last month. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives say English-speaking hacker community a key suspect after M&amp;S, Co-op and Harrods targeted Business live \u2013 latest updates A hacker community known as Scattered Spider is a key suspect in a criminal inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers including Marks &amp; Spencer, detectives have said. Scattered Spider, a loose collective of native English-speaking cybercriminals, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/scattered-spider-is-focus-of-nca-inquiry-into-cyber-attacks-against-uk-retailers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scattered Spider is focus of NCA inquiry into cyber-attacks against UK retailers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18888,"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\/18887"}],"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=18887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}