‘0ktapus’ hackers are back and targeting tech and gaming companies, says leaked report
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe report, prepared by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, calls the hackers ‘Scattered Spider.’ In a previous publicly available report, the company said this group is also known as ‘Roasted 0ktapus’ in an apparent reference to the report published by Group-IB, another cybersecurity firm, last year.
Two cybersecurity insiders, who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to speak to the press, said that the understanding within the industry is that Scattered Spider is the same group as 0ktapus.
‘Scattered Spider continued deploying numerous phishing pages in January 2023. CrowdStrike Intelligence assesses the adversary has likely expanded its target scope to include technology sector companies specializing in gaming or financial software, while maintaining a prior focus on business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and cellular providers,’ read the report, which is not publicly available.
It’s unclear if this is the same group that hacked Riot Games last month, but in a list of phishing domains included in the CrowdStrike report, there’s one that was clearly made to target the video game giant given that it includes the name of the company in the URL.
Among the phishing domains, there’s also others tailored to impersonate video game makers Roblox and Zynga; email marketing and newsletter giant Mailchimp and its parent company Intuit; Salesforce; Comcast; and Grubhub. TaskUs, a contractor that provides customer service for companies, including Mailchimp, Intuit and other tech giants, was also on the list.
In January, Mailchimp disclosed that it had been hacked — the second hack against the company in six months. At the time, Mailchimp said the hackers targeted its employees via phishing. It’s unclear if this incident is tied to the activities of Scattered Spider. Mailchimp did not respond to a request for comment.
Riot declined to comment.
Salesforce spokesperson Allen Tsai said that the company is ‘aware of and monitor phishing campaigns industry-wide.’
‘At this time, we have no indication of unauthorized access to customer data relevant to the cited report,’ Tsai said in an email.
An Intuit spokesperson did not comment as they had not seen the report.
Roblox, Zynga, TaskUs, Comcast, and Grubhub did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The report said that ‘the majority’ of the hacking group’s phishing pages were designed to mimic Okta login portals, ‘while a much smaller number impersonated Microsoft.’
CrowdStrike did not respond to a request for comment.
Ref: techcrunch
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