Ex-NSA bad-guy hunter listened to Scattered Spider's fake help-desk calls: 'Those guys are good'
The call came into the help desk at a large US retailer. An employee had been locked out of their corporate accounts.
But the caller wasn’t actually a company employee. He was a Scattered Spider criminal trying to break into the retailer’s systems — and he was really good, according to Jon DiMaggio, a former NSA analyst who now works as a chief security strategist at Analyst1.
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