When BlackCat pulled an exit scam in February after extorting Change Healthcare for $22 million, people started speculating how long it would be before they re-branded and re-emerged. We may have an answer now. The Register reports that both BlackCat (aka ALPHV) and Scattered Spider appear to be back:
In October, security firm ReliaQuest responded to a digital break-in at a manufacturing firm that it attributed with “high confidence” to Scattered Spider.
This indicates that, despite law enforcement’s best efforts – including arresting a 22-year-old Brit suspected to be the gang’s kingpin in June and a 19-year-old Florida man in January – the loose-knit group of teens and early-20s males hasn’t gone away.
Read more at The Register.
