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Windows is watching: Anti-piracy tool fingers Scattered Spider suspect

ID: 8a1c2cd2-bd46-505e-a543-787df666832b

STIX ID: report--8a1c2cd2-bd46-505e-a543-787df666832b

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-07-07

Date Updated: 2026-07-23

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The DOJ complaint alleges Peter Stokes participated in Scattered Spider operations that compromised employee accounts across more than 100 corporate networks for data exfiltration and ransomware—purportedly yielding over $100M—and investigators used Microsoft Windows Global Device Identifier (GDID) telemetry, ngrok records, and VPN logs to link online activity to the suspect.

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