Scattered spider moves past the UK, places giving birth to the American companies

• American retailers must “take note”, Google warns
• Distributed Spider this year was aimed at several American retailers
• The group has had a “long break”

Scattered Spider, a well -known ransomware collective, no longer forfenses his target range, exclusively on British companies. According to the Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (TIG), this is told Bleeping computer that American retailers “must take note.”

“The American retail sector is currently the target ransomware And extortion operations that we suspect are linked to UNC3944, also known as scattered Spider, “told John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group, to the publication. Hultquist added that scattered Spider has returned after a” long hiatus “to focus on several companies.