Chasing The Most Hated Hacker In History - Joe Tidy - #954

What's happening with Scattered Spider? Well, Scattered Spider is the name of this very loosely coordinated collective of hackers that are, we think, currently causing havoc around the UK and the US as well. So I don't know if you've heard about the news of the MNS cyber attack. and the co-op cyber attack. So um there's a really big, if you're not in the UK, there's a really big uh chain of of supermarkets called M<unk>S, very much loved, over 100 years old, one of the pillars of the high street.

And around Easter time, there was a cyber attack which started causing problems for M<unk>S and it just got worse and worse and worse for them because Initially they said actually we we can't take orders on the internet, which for a massive company like M<unk>S is really bad. Then we started seeing logistics problems, empty shelves in some stores. And then around this same time there was a very similar attack on the co-op. Again, another big supermarket chain in the UK.

They also do funeral services and insurance as well. That attack wasn't as bad, but again, we're seeing disruption at stores, empty shelves. real chaos behind the scenes. And around the same time, we saw an attack on Harrods, obviously the uh the luxury retailer in London. Um, so everyone's wondering what on earth is going on.

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