2023-09-16
Chances are, if you stopped in the @sec_defcon this year at @defcon, you heard first hand how successful #vishing can be. 🧵
Financial Times
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines
Mehul Srivastava / Financial Times :
2023-09-15
Chances are, if you stopped in the @sec_defcon this year at @defcon, you heard first hand how successful #vishing can be. 🧵
Financial Times
MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines
Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company
2023-09-14
Chances are, if you stopped in the @sec_defcon this year at @defcon, you heard first hand how successful #vishing can be. 🧵
Forbes
MGM Resorts' website is still down over 60 hours after being hit by a cyberattack; ransomware-as-a-service group ALPHV, aka BlackCat, reportedly took credit
1. Look up who works at a org on LinkedIn — 2. Call Help Desk (spoof phone number of person I'm impersonating) — 3. Tell Help Desk I lost access to work account & help me get b...
Chances are, if you stopped in the @sec_defcon this year at @defcon, you heard first hand how successful #vishing can be. 🧵
Bloomberg
Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the data
- Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack