Scattered Spider

September 2025

September 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 39
Robin’s Newsletter #380
Vol. 8, Iss. 39

JLR secures line of credit for supply chain. US Secret Service uncovers 100,000 SIM farm. NCA arrests man in Collins Aerospace attack.


Vol. 8, Iss. 38
Robin’s Newsletter #379
Vol. 8, Iss. 38

European air travel disrupted by Collins Aerospace attack. Shai-Hulud npm worm infects 180+ packages. Microsoft's Entra ID verification clanger.

August 2025

August 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 33
Robin’s Newsletter #374
Vol. 8, Iss. 33

Second UK government Afghan resettlement data breah. Colt telecom turns off some services to contain incident. Some speed cameras in the Netherlands are offline.

July 2025

July 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 29
Robin’s Newsletter #370
Vol. 8, Iss. 29

Data on 6.5M Co-op members stolen. UK MoD kept Afghan data breach a secret using super-injunction. Salt Typhoon all up in National Guard's network.


Vol. 8, Iss. 28
Robin’s Newsletter #369
Vol. 8, Iss. 28

Four arrested in UK retail cyber attacks. Critical Citrix Bleed 2 vulnerability. Would you like fries with that? McDonald's 123456 password.


Vol. 8, Iss. 27
Robin’s Newsletter #368
Vol. 8, Iss. 27

Sinoloa cartel used compromised mobile devices, CCTV, to identify and kill FBI informants. Qantas breached by Scattered Spider. Canada bans Hikvision.

June 2025

June 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 25
Robin’s Newsletter #366
Vol. 8, Iss. 25

Israeli/Iran cyberspace heating up. Scattered Spider turns to insurance industry. 23andMe fined £2.3M by ICO.

May 2025

May 2025


Vol. 8, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #362
Vol. 8, Iss. 21

Global infostealer, ransomware infrastrucutre takedown. TCS investigating role in M&S incident. Anthropic's AI blackmails developer in test.


Vol. 8, Iss. 20
Robin’s Newsletter #361
Vol. 8, Iss. 20

M&S insurance claim may top £100M. Coinbase flips script on extortion attempt. OpenAI instructed to retain output log data.


Vol. 8, Iss. 18
Robin’s Newsletter #359
Vol. 8, Iss. 18

Co-op, Harrods join M&S as victims of Scattered Spider breaches. Spanish power outage not a cyberattack. RDP lets you login with old creds.

November 2024

November 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 47
Robin’s Newsletter #336
Vol. 7, Iss. 47

Black Friday scam warning. Microsoft Windows changes announced following CrowdStrike outage. Facebook take down of 2 million pig butchering accounts.

June 2024

June 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 24
Robin’s Newsletter #313
Vol. 7, Iss. 24

Six years! Wow. Thanks for subscribing 😊 (now go donate blood to help the NHS respond to a ransomware attack)

May 2024

May 2024


Vol. 7, Iss. 21
Robin’s Newsletter #310
Vol. 7, Iss. 21

Microsoft Recall is a 'privacy nightmare'. UK/China threat not being takn seriously. FBI says Scattered Spiter is ~1,000 people.

October 2023

October 2023


Vol. 6, Iss. 44
Robin’s Newsletter #280
Vol. 6, Iss. 44

1Password, Cloudflare amongst 170 caught up in Okta breach. UK Online Safety Bill becomes law. Lawful intercept against Russian chat service.