Incidents attributed to:
Social-engineering of a third-party service desk gave Scattered Spider a domain administrator, which they used to deploy DragonForce ransomware on M&S's VMware ESXi estate at Easter 2025 — knocking out contactless payments, Click & Collect, and online ordering for over six weeks.
Scattered Spider vished an MGM IT-desk agent, gained Okta admin, and let ALPHV detonate ransomware. Casinos went offline for ten days; the loss to MGM exceeded $100 million.
Scattered Spider impersonated a Caesars employee on a call to a third-party IT support vendor and convinced the vendor to grant Okta credentials, then exfiltrated customer loyalty data including SSNs and driver's licences. Caesars paid roughly $15 million ransom; the FBI later froze a substantial portion of the funds with Chainalysis assistance.