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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
ber-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison

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