Federal Public Prosecutors accused a British teenager with conspiracy to commit computer prefraud and other crimes in connection with the network intrusions of 47 American companies that generated more than $ 115 million to ransomware payments over a three-year period.
A criminal complaint that was concluded on Thursday (pdf) (pdf) said that Thalha Jubair, 19, from London, was part of Scattered Spider, the name of an English -speaking group that broke the networks of dozens of companies worldwide. After obtaining data, the group demanded that the victims pay substantial ransom or see their confidential data published or sold.
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The disconnection of the document, submitted in the American court of the New Jersey district, came on the same day and another alleged scattered Spider – Owen Flowers, 18, from Walsall, West Midlands – were charged by British prosecutors related to last year's cyber attacks. The agency, which supervises the public transport system of London, was given a recovery effort of months as a result of the infringement.
Both men were arrested in their houses on Thursday and appeared later in the day at Westminster Magistrates Court, where they were sent back in the area on October 16 to appear in Crown Court, said the British National Crime Agency. Flowers was previously arrested in connection with transport for London attack in September 2024 and later released. NCA officers from the judiciary said that in addition to the attack on the transit agency Bloemen and other conspirators were responsible for a cyber attack on SSM health care and an attempt to violate De Sutter Health, both of which are located in the US. It was also accused of offenses with regard to his refusal to seize PIN codes and passwords for devices.
