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While Russian gangs do have a lot of involvement, I don't think these particular casino hacks were attributed to any Russian group. Scattered Spider is attribut

by doakes 3y ago

While Russian gangs do have a lot of involvement, I don't think these particular casino hacks were attributed to any Russian group. Scattered Spider is attributed and is believed to be 19-22 year old's from US and UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered_Spider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered_Spider

btilly 3y ago
That I hadn't known. But if you follow the trail, Scattered Spider had the hard ransomware work done by ALPHAV, also known as Black Cat, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackCat_(cyber_gang) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackCat_(cyber_gang). And THEIR developers and money launderers are linked to DarkSide, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkSide_(hacker_group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkSide_(hacker_group). Which is based in Russia. So basically a bunch of young Western men participated in the social engineering. But the real computer knowhow and methods of getting paid trace right back to Russian criminals who are willing to work with them.