Russians team up with young English speaking hackers for cyberattacks
“At times, [it] takes a hacker to defeat a hacker,” says former NSA Director of Cybersecurity Rob Joyce. He says the NSA has decided to put more resources into the foreign threat of ransomware attacks.
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with the emergence of an audacious group of young criminal hackers from the U.S., U.K. and Canada the FBI calls Scattered Spider. More troubling, they have teamed up with Russia's most notorious ransomware gang.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cybersecurity-investigators-worry-ransomware-attacks-may-worsen-as-young-hackers-in-us-work-with-russians-60-minutes-transcript/
Scattered spider
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa23-320a