FBI Warns of Increased Scattered Spider Attacks in US

The FBI and industry researchers report that Scattered Spider is actively targeting the airline sector through sophisticated social engineering that defeats MFA and abuses help-desk workflows and third‑party vendor access to rapidly escalate privileges, exfiltrate data, disable recovery systems, and deploy ransomware across hybrid on‑prem/cloud environments; the group acts as modular initial-access brokers and affiliates within the RaaS ecosystem, prompting recommendations to harden identity verification and help-desk procedures.