A Slavic Cybercrime Group Different retailers UK and USA According to Google Intelligence Group (GTIG), they started focusing on large insurance companies.
“Google Group Group Group now knows about numerous invasions in the United States that carry all the distinctive features of the scattered spider,” Gtig Chief Analyst said on Monday.
“We are now seeing incidents in the insurance industry. Given the history of this actor to focus on the sector at the same time, the insurance industry should be more vigilant, especially for social engineering schemes that focus on their auxiliary tables and count centers.”
A spider scattered is the name designed for the amorphous team, which is known for its use of advanced social engineering tactics to violate organizations. In recent months, as they think RansomHubInfrastructure.
“The group has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to betray its employees, cheat on IT teams and bypass multifactorial authentication (Foreign Ministry) through cunning psychological tactics,” SOS Intelligence – Note.
“Often referred to as” native English speakers “, they are suspected of work or have connections with Western countries, bringing cultural fluency that makes them phishing and attacks on the phone anxious.”
Previously this month, reliability disclosed This scattered spider and Dragonforce are increasingly aiming at managed service providers (MSPS) and IT contractors to access several customers down one compromise.
Mandiant owned by Google – Note The actors of the threat often allocate large enterprises, probably hoping to go out for a higher salary.
Particularly purposeful are enterprises with great help on tables and outsourcing IT functions that are sensitive to social engineering attacks.
To mitigate the tactics used by the electronic crime group, it is recommended to improve authentication, ensure tight control, implement access and limits to prevent escalation of privileges and lateral traffic, and teach service staff to positively determine employees before resetting their accounts.
