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Scattered Spider's MGM hack retold with low-poly potatoes
Original: How Scattered Spider shut down Las Vegas with one phone call, retold with low-poly potatoes 🥔 LinkedIn recon → help-desk
Scattered Spider's 2023 attack on MGM Resorts is being retold in a quirky animated explainer, with low-poly potato characters. The story shows how a single phone call, LinkedIn research and help-desk impersonation led to a password and MFA reset, ransomware across 100+ MGM servers and the shutdown of Las Vegas operations. The campaign later hit Caesars, M&S, Salesforce clients and TfL, where two members were arrested.
Why now: A creative animated retelling of the MGM breach is drawing renewed attention to Scattered Spider's social-engineering tactics.
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- How Scattered Spider shut down Las Vegas with one phone call, retold with low-poly potatoes 🥔 LinkedIn recon → help-desk impersonation → password + MFA reset → ransomware on 100+ MGM servers. Then Caesars, M&S, the Salesforce vishing wave, and TfL, which is how two of them got… · PotatoCrimes@infosec.exchange · 1
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