{"id":17180,"date":"2023-11-20T04:31:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T23:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17180"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:10:08","slug":"scattered-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/scattered-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"What is \u2018Scattered Spiders\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Scattered Spiders<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0hacking group notorious for\u00a0invading various organizations across the world.<\/li>\n<li>This hacker group is\u00a0known by other aliases as well,\u00a0including Starfraud, UNC3944,\u00a0Scatter Swine, and\u00a0Muddled Libra.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0members are as young\u00a0as 16 years old\u00a0and primary English speakers.<\/li>\n<li>They break into the IT environments of victims,\u00a0exfiltrates as much valuable data as possible, and\u00a0then demand payment to keep a lid on that information and\u00a0not leak or sell it.<\/li>\n<li>Modus operandi:\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00a0use fake profiles and impersonations\u00a0to trick a victim organisation&#8217;s help desk into giving them access.<\/li>\n<li>After gaining access to an organisation&#8217;s systems, hackers\u00a0keep an eye on internal communication channels.<\/li>\n<li>They also keep a tab on emails or conversations that might show if their breach has been discovered.<\/li>\n<li>The criminals \u201cfrequently join incident remediation and response calls and teleconferences, likely\u00a0to identify how security teams are hunting them and proactively\u00a0develop new avenues of intrusion\u00a0in response to victim defenses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How to stay safe?\n<ul>\n<li>Maintain offline backups of data<\/li>\n<li>Require all accounts to have password logins<\/li>\n<li>Use longer passwords consisting of\u00a0at least eight characters and no more than 64 characters in length<\/li>\n<li>Require\u00a0phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA)<\/li>\n<li>Keep all operating systems, software, and firmware\u00a0up to date<\/li>\n<li>Disable hyperlinks\u00a0in emails<\/li>\n<li>Keep\u00a0all data encrypted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is phishing?<\/h3>\n<p>Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target or targets are contacted by email, telephone or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure individuals into providing sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, banking and credit card details, and passwords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/tech\/fbi-issues-warning-about-dangerous-scattered-spiders-hackers-heres-how-to-be-safe-8668017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>FBI Issues Warning About Dangerous &#8216;Scattered Spiders&#8217; Hackers: Here&#8217;s How To Be Safe<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered Spiders is a hacking group notorious for invading various organizations across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}