American Hospital Association November 16, 2023
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Nov. 16 recommended health care and other critical infrastructure take steps to protect their networks from the Scattered Spider group, which uses social engineering techniques and legitimate remote access tools to compromise victim networks, extort ransom and steal data.
“Scattered Spider’s sophisticated technical cyberattacks begin with sophisticated psychological attacks,” said John Riggi, AHA’s national advisor for cybersecurity and risk. “Scattered Spider employs social engineering techniques to deceive end users into providing their credentials, authentication codes or downloading ‘help desk’ tools on their computers that allow the adversary...
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