Cybercrime Social Engineering Telecommunications 
SecureWorld News
MAY 16, 2025
Scattered Spider is a financially motivated threat actor group known for its social engineering prowess, SIM-swapping attacks, and living-off-the-land (LOTL) techniques. The group is well known to employ social engineering tactics to gain access, so hardening your help desk is an immediate first step in defense," Staynings continued.
Security Affairs
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Security Affairs
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Krebs on Security
AUGUST 19, 2020
For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. Allen said it matters little to the attackers if the first few social engineering attempts fail. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com) com) targeting AT&T employees. Image: urlscan.io.
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 29, 2022
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Digital Shadows
OCTOBER 23, 2024
The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Scattered Spider previously targeted telecommunications firms, likely to support its SIM-swapping activities that facilitate account takeovers.
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