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    News RoomBy News RoomMay 6, 20253 Mins Read
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    Over the past two years, Scattered Spider has emerged as one of the most prolific and dangerous sets of hackers currently operating. The threat actors are not a well-defined group of hackers. Instead, they’re more a loose collective that uses social engineering—such as phishing and voice calls—to gain initial access into company networks. Scattered Spider members are often English-speaking, teenaged, and can be members of the heinous criminal group the Com. The hackers have been active since June 2022 and have targeted more than 100 companies—including the high-profile hacks on Caesar’s Entertainment and MGM Resorts in 2023.

    French authorities have condemned Russia’s military intelligence agency, accusing it of orchestrating a series of high-profile cyberattacks—including the hacking of Emmanuel Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign, a brazen 2015 assault on the TV channel TV5 Monde, and recent intrusion attempts targeting organizations involved in preparing the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

    French authorities have also disclosed the name and location of a GRU unit tied to the notorious hacking group APT28—information that had never before been officially released. Unit 20728 is based in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and operates out of the “166th Information Research Center.”

    This marks the first time French officials have publicly assigned blame to a foreign intelligence service following an internal attribution process. The timing is significant, coming as Paris positions itself at the forefront of Europe’s support for Ukraine.

    The Trump administration has taken the first step toward blacklisting a Cambodian financial conglomerate at the center of a global money laundering network. On Thursday, the Treasury Department designated Huione Group as a money-laundering operation, alleging that the company and its affiliates have laundered more than $4 billion for criminals, including North Korean hackers and online scammers.

    These scammers—who defraud victims through bogus investments and other schemes—rely on Huione and its affiliates to move funds abroad to evade both law enforcement and anti-money-laundering systems. The proposed action represents the most significant effort yet to crack down on Huione, which is tied to what experts believe to be the “largest illicit marketplace”: Huione Guarantee. According to WIRED’s January report, the marketplace has likely facilitated over $24 billion in gray-market transactions. Experts believe the platform operates as a one-stop shop for scammers, offering everything from victim contact lists and deepfake tools to fake investment websites and other illicit services.

    Slowly but surely, the password is dying. Over the past two years, passkeys—a stronger method of authentication that doesn’t require you to remember or use a password—have become more common. The rollout of the technology has been piecemeal, but big tech companies have worked for years to create the alternative, which is more secure than passwords. This week, Microsoft announced that people setting up new accounts with the company won’t have to create passwords at all. “New Microsoft accounts will now be ‘passwordless by default,’” the company wrote in a blog post. Microsoft is also pushing people further away from passwords and will “detect” the best way for people to lo in to their accounts if they have set up alternatives to passwords.

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