Petet Stokes was arrested in Finland and extradited to the U.S. over alleged ties to the Scattered Spider group, with Microsoft helping in the investigation. He's in custody awaiting trial based on a ...

GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how ...

Federal complaint says a Windows GDID tied Peter Stokes to a May 2025 jewelry retailer hack that stole 77GB and drew an $8M ...

A 19-year-old accused of belonging to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group has been extradited to the United States after Finnish authorities arrested ...

Peter Stokes, the 19-year-old American-Estonian extradited from Finland to face Scattered Spider hacking charges in the ...

DOJ claims the group stole over $100 million across various attacks.

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The big picture: People have grumbled about Windows telemetry for years, to the point that an entire cottage industry of tools that clean up the OS now exists just to strip the tracking bits out.

The UK has been experiencing another heatwave, with high temperatures, dry ground and strong winds making it easier for fires ...

Microsoft 365 passkey phishing is now targeting enterprise employees mid-rollout: criminal group Pink cold-calls workers ...