Hacker groupG1015
Scattered Spider
Also tracked as Roasted 0ktapus, Octo Tempest, Storm-0875, UNC3944
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.
- Known attack methods
- 64
- Motive
- Financial gain
- First seen
- 2022
- Last seen
- 2022-12
- Source
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, mapped onto the ATT&CK matrix. Each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
Used by this groupNot documented for this groupIn brackets: sub-techniques this group uses, of those that exist.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques · 2 used
Resource Development
9 techniques · 3 used
Initial Access
11 techniques
Execution
20 techniques · 2 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 4 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques · 1 used
Stealth
30 techniques · 5 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques · 5 used
Credential Access
17 techniques · 5 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 9 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 1 used
Collection
17 techniques · 4 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 4 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 2 used
Impact
15 techniques · 3 used
Reconnaissance4
Resource development4
Persistence5
Privilege escalation1
Stealth6
Defense impairment6
Credential access6
Discovery11
- T1016System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1018Remote System Discovery
- T1069Permission Groups Discovery
- T1069.002Domain Groups
- T1082System Information Discovery
- T1083File and Directory Discovery
- T1087Account Discovery
- T1087.002Domain Account
- T1217Browser Information Discovery
- T1538Cloud Service Dashboard
- T1580Cloud Infrastructure Discovery
Lateral movement3
Collection6
Command and control4
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
BlackCatRaccoon StealerWarzoneRAT
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.
ConnectWiseLaZagneMimikatzRcloneTorngrok
Campaigns
C0027