Scattered Spider
Scattered Spider is a native English-speaking cybercriminal group active since at least 2022. The group initially targeted customer relationship management (CRM) providers, business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, and telecommunications and technology companies before expanding in 2023 to gaming, hospitality, retail, managed service provider (MSP), manufacturing, and financial sectors. Scattered Spider relies heavily on social engineering, including impersonating IT and help-desk staff, to gain initial access, bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA), and compromise enterprise networks. The group has adapted its tooling to evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) defenses and used ransomware for financial gain. Scattered Spider had expanded into hybrid cloud and identity environments, using help-desk impersonation and MFA bypass to obtain administrator access in Okta, AWS, and Office 365.
Properties
- Last source
- MITRE ATT&CK
- STIX ID
- intrusion-set--44d37b89-a739-4810-9111-0d2617a8939b
- In Signal since
- initial import (Sep 2026)
- Retrieved at
- 2026-11-02T12:53:29+00:00
- Type
- intrusion-set
MITRE ATT&CK Techniques (showing 30 of 64)
Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of valid accounts, usernames, or email addresses on a system or within a compromised environment. This inform
Adversaries may manipulate accounts to maintain and/or elevate access to victim systems. Account manipulation may consist of any action that preserves
An adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled cloud account to maintain persistent access to a tenant. For example,
Adversaries may enumerate information about browsers to learn more about compromised environments. Data saved by browsers (such as bookmarks, accounts
Adversaries may modify mail and mail application data to remove evidence of their activity. Email applications allow users and other programs to expor
Valid accounts in cloud environments may allow adversaries to perform actions to achieve Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense
An adversary may attempt to discover infrastructure and resources that are available within an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment. This in
An adversary may use a cloud service dashboard GUI with stolen credentials to gain useful information from an operational cloud environment, such as s
Adversaries may log into accessible cloud services within a compromised environment using Valid Accounts
Adversaries may leverage code repositories to collect valuable information. Code repositories are tools/services that store source code and automate s
Adversaries may create, acquire, or steal code signing materials to sign their malware or tools. Code signing provides a level of authenticity on a bi
Adversaries may disable or modify conditional access policies to enable persistent access to compromised accounts. Conditional access policies are add
Adversaries may create an account to maintain access to victim systems. With a sufficient level of access,
An adversary may create a new instance or virtual machine (VM) within the compute service of a cloud account to evade defenses. Creating a new instanc
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials. These can be files created by use
Adversaries may encrypt data on target systems or on large numbers of systems in a network to interrupt availability to system and network resources.
Adversaries may stage collected data in a central location or directory prior to Exfiltration. Data may be kept in separate files or combined into one
Adversaries may access data from cloud storage. Many IaaS providers offer solutions for online data object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Storage,
Adversaries may directly access a volume to bypass file access controls and file system monitoring. Windows allows programs to have direct access to l
Adversaries may disable, degrade, or tamper with security tools or applications (e.g., endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, intrusion detectio
Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of domain accounts. This information can help adversaries determine which domain accounts exist to aid in fol
Adversaries may attempt to find domain-level groups and permission settings. The knowledge of domain-level permission groups can help adversaries dete
Adversaries may acquire domains that can be used during targeting. Domain names are the human readable names used to represent one or more IP addresse
Adversaries may target user email to collect sensitive information. Emails may contain sensitive data, including trade secrets or personal information
Adversaries may setup email forwarding rules to collect sensitive information. Adversaries may abuse email forwarding rules to monitor the activities
Adversaries may use email rules to hide inbound emails in a compromised user's mailbox. Many email clients allow users to create inbox rules for vario
Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an existing command and control channel. Stolen data is encoded into the normal communications chan
Adversaries may exfiltrate data to a cloud storage service rather than over their primary command and control channel. Cloud storage services allow fo
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges. Exploitation of a software vulnerability occurs when an adversar
Adversaries may leverage external-facing remote services to initially access and/or persist within a network. Remote services such as VPNs, Citrix, an
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Attributed campaigns (1)
C0027 was a financially-motivated campaign linked to [Scattered Spider](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1
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