Exclusive Partner Briefing: Phishing for Financial Gain: UNC3944
Exclusive Partner Briefing: Phishing for Financial Gain: UNC3944
What do 0ktapus, Scatter Swine, and Scattered Spider all have in common? Overlap with UNC3944 nexus who specializes in SMS phishing campaigns, SIM swap attacks, and good old fashioned social engineering. This financially motivated threat actor has been active since March 2022 and historically targeted telecommunications, cryptocurrency, and business process outsourcing (BPO) organizations. The group compromises data by targeting users in social engineering attacks directed at the user’s phones to steal their credentials and use them to gain access to systems that host sensitive data.