Industry groups urge vigilance as Scattered Spider evolves tactics

A coalition of information-sharing groups urged their members on Wednesday to take additional steps to mitigate potential attacks by the cybercrime gang Scattered Spider, which has spent recent months attacking the insurance, retail and airline industries. 

“Threat actors such as Scattered Spider are constantly innovating, so organizations must be diligent in continually monitoring their processes and identities to look for new exploits,” the group of information sharing and analysis centers (ISACs) — representing the financial services, food and agriculture, information technology, healthcare, aviation, automotive, retail, maritime and electricity sectors — said in a joint advisory.

Their warning came one day after the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that Scattered Spider had developed an evolving set of tactics to conduct social-engineering attacks on its targets.

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