by The hackers, who are responsible for attacks on M&S and other British retailers, are now aimed at shops in the USA, warned Google.
The Tech -Riese made an explanation on Wednesday and asked the US companies to take special care in front of potential cyber attacks by the Hacking group ‘scattered spider’.
“US retailers should take note of it. These actors are aggressive, creative and particularly effective to avoid mature security programs,” said John Hultquist, analyst at Google’s Cyber Security ARM.
Scattered spiders is a nickname for a loosely connected network of hackers of different sophistations and is generally reported that they were behind the highly stirring hack at M&S, whose online operations have been frozen since April 25.
The scattered group concentrated in the past focuses on a single sector and is likely to address retail for longer, said Hultquist.
Hackers from the scattered spider ecosystem stood behind a series of disruptive burglaries on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 2023, Hacker, who were tied to the group, made headlines for Hacking Casino operators MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment.
The law enforcement authorities tried to get hackers under control, which were bound to scattered spiders, some due to the amorphosis of the group, the youth of the hackers and the lack of cooperation between cybercrime victims.
The FBI and the cyber security and infrastructure security authority, America’s civil cyberdefense body, did not give back any news that a comment was searched for.
Christian Beckner, a Vice President of the National Retail Federation, said his members are already aware of the risk of disturbing ingress of scattered, spider -connected groups.
“We have followed everything in Great Britain in the past few weeks,” he said. “There are no geographical limits for these threats.”
The ISAC for retail and hospitality, a group for information exchange, the core members of which Albertsons, Costco, McDonald’s and Lowe’s include, said it was working with Google to prepare a briefing for its membership.
On Tuesday, M&S announced that due to the latest cyber attack, some customer data had been accessed, although they had no usable payment details or passwords.
“While we continue to manage the current cyber incident, we wrote to the customers to inform them that the type of incident unfortunately means that some personal customer data was used,” said the company.
Additional reporting of agencies
