Alphabet’s Google said hackers responsible for paralyzing disruptions of U.K. retailers are turning their attention to similar companies in the United States.
“U.S. retailers should take note. These actors are aggressive, creative, and particularly effective at circumventing mature security programs,” John Hultquist, an analyst at Google’s cybersecurity arm, said in an email sent on Wednesday.
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The culprit is a group connected with “Scattered Spider,” a nickname for a loosely interconnected network of hackers of varying levels of sophistication, it added.
Scattered Spider is widely