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   US judge sentences Scattered Spider member sentenced to 10 years in prison   
      
   Date:   
   Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:28:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Urban will have to return millions and pay even more in restitution.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   For the first time, a member of the notorious Scattered Spider cybercrime    
   gang was sentenced to prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and   
   more.    
      
   Noah Michael Urban will be spending the next 10 years behind bars, the US   
   Department of Justice (DoJ) has said.    
      
   Urban, known in the cybercriminal underworld as King Bob, Sosa, Elijah, or   
   Gustavo Fring, will also have to forfeit roughly $4.8 million in assets such   
   as cryptocurrency and other property, and pay $13 million in restitution to   
   victims.   
      
   More Scattered Spider attacks    
      
   Urban was arrested in January 2024, and pleaded guilty on April 4, 2025. As   
   per court documents, between August 2022 and March 2023 he stole   
   cryptocurrency from at least 59 victims across the States employing, among   
   other things, SIM-swap attacks to obtain personal information. He then used   
   that information to access his victims wallets and transfer out the funds.    
      
   Urban is believed to be a key figure in the infamous Scattered Spider   
   organization, CyberInsider reports.    
      
   His sentencing, the publication argues, is just one of many moves law   
   enforcement has made against the group in recent times, including charging   
   four other members for similar crimes: Ahmed Hossam Eldin Elbadawy (TX),    
   Evans Onyeaka Osiebo (TX), Joel Martin Evans (NC), and Tyler Robert Buchanan   
   (UK).    
      
   Unlike most hacking collectives, which are tightly knit and well-organized,   
   Scattered Spider is a rather loose organization, researchers are saying.   
   Still, the group managed to even draw the attention of the FBI, after    
   wreaking havoc among different industries, from retail, to airline, to   
   critical infrastructure.    
      
   Less than a month ago (while the five suspects were already in custody), the   
   FBI issued a warning that Scattered Spider was only getting warmed up with    
   its cyberattacks, urging businesses to be on their guard.    
      
   Together with the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),   
   and a handful of other security agencies in Canada, the UK, and Australia,    
   the FBI warned Scattered Spider evolved to use more advanced social   
   engineering - mostly impersonating employees to trick IT help desks into   
   resetting passwords and transferring MFA tokens to attacker-controlled   
   devices.    
      
   The hackers have also added new malware such as RattyRAT for stealthy access   
   and DragonForce ransomware to encrypt systems and demand payment - especially   
   targeting VMware ESXi servers.    
      
    Via BleepingComputer   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/us-judge-sentences-scattered-spider-mem   
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