Scattered Spider: Three things the news doesn’t tell you

This Push Security analysis describes how the Scattered Spider collective and adjacent criminal groups use identity-focused techniques — help-desk social engineering, SIM swapping, smishing, credential phishing, and AiTM phishing toolkits — to bypass MFA, take over privileged cloud identities (Okta/Entra), and enable large data thefts and ransomware deployment (often via RaaS like DragonForce); it reviews several high-impact incidents and recommends strengthening help-desk controls and broader identity defenses.