Scattered Spider Boss Cuffed in Spain Boarding a Flight to Italy

The report describes the arrest in Spain of the alleged 22-year-old leader of the Scattered Spider cybercrime ring, accused of over 45 attacks that disrupted major U.S. companies (including MGM Resorts and Caesars), seizure of devices and control over $27M in Bitcoin, and notes law enforcement operations targeting cybercriminals and researcher observations of the group expanding into SaaS-based ransomware.