Stopping Scattered Spider: 5 steps to secure your front line

This report outlines social engineering-driven initial access TTPs—impersonation of executives to pressure help desks, MFA bypass via unauthorized device enrollment, SIM swapping, and push bombing—used by actors like Scattered Spider, and offers practical mitigations: enforce help desk identity verification SOPs and training, deploy robust MFA (avoid SMS), and monitor for anomalies such as impossible travel, irregular IP patterns, and suspicious MFA changes.