{"id":279724,"date":"2026-06-23T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial-krebs-on-security\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:30:12","slug":"scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial-krebs-on-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial-krebs-on-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial \u2013 Krebs on Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/06\/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial\/\">Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial \u2013 Krebs on Security<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/06\/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial\/\">https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/06\/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 12:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"krebsonsecurity.com\">krebsonsecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled <strong>Transport for London<\/strong>, the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area. The duo were key members of a prolific cybercrime group known as <strong>Scattered Spider<\/strong>, and their guilty pleas came on the first day of what was expected to be a six-week trial.<\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-73881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Owen Flowers (left) 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20. Image: UK National Crime Agency (NCA).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thalha Jubair<\/strong>, 20, of East London and 18-year-old <strong>Owen Flowers<\/strong> of Walsall admitted conspiring to commit unauthorized acts against Transport for London computer systems and causing risk of serious damage to human welfare. According to a report from the BBC, Flowers alone admitted to being part of a conspiracy to hack into U.S. based healthcare providers SSM Health Care Corporation and Sutter Health in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Jubair is also wanted by U.S. law enforcement agencies. In September 2025, prosecutors in New Jersey unsealed an indictment alleging Jubair and other Scattered Spider members committed computer fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in relation to 120 computer network intrusions involving 47 U.S. entities between May 2022 and September 2025, and that the group\u2019s victims paid at least $115 million in ransom payments.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2025, KrebsOnSecurity reported that Flowers and Jubair were arrested in the United Kingdom in connection with Scattered Spider ransom attacks\u00a0against the retailers\u00a0<strong>Marks &#038; Spencer<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Harrods<\/strong>, and the British food retailer\u00a0<strong>Co-op Group<\/strong>. Multiple sources familiar with those investigations said Flowers was the Scattered Spider member who anonymously gave interviews to the media in the days after the group\u2019s September 2023 ransomware attacks disrupted operations at Las Vegas casinos operated by <strong>MGM Resorts<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Jubair co-ran a bustling Telegram channel called <strong>Star Chat<\/strong>, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/06\/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial \u2013 Krebs on Security https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2026\/06\/scattered-spider-hackers-plead-guilty-on-day-1-of-trial\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/flowers-jubair-nca.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279726,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279724\/revisions\/279726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}