Scattered Canary
When the first member of Scattered Canary, who, for the purposes of this report, we call Alpha, began his operations, he was a lone wolf—working mostly Craigslist scams as he learned the tricks of the trade from a mentor. However, within a few years, he had honed his craft enough to expand into romance scams, where he met his first “employee,” Beta. Once they had secured enough mules via their romance scams to launder their stolen money, they shifted from targeting individuals to targeting enterprises, and the group’s BEC operation was born.
CVEs in recent coverage
No CVEs named alongside this actor in the last 90 days.
Recent victims
No leak-site posts on record for this group.
Recent activity
No posts or advisories have named this actor recently.
References
- https://cofense.com/blog/gift-card-fraud-ecosystem-shifts-what-paxfuls-closing-means-for-business-email-compromise/
- https://static.fortra.com/agari/pdfs/guide/ag-scattered-canary-gd.pdf
- https://www.agari.com/blog/covid-19-unemployment-fraud-cares-act?_gl=1%2Ayzg6ns%2A_ga%2AMTkyMzIyOTI4MC4xNjk2MjUyMDA2%2A_ga_NHMHGJWX49%2AMTY5NjI1MjAwNS4xLjAuMTY5NjI1MjAwNS42MC4wLjA.&utm_source=press-release&utm_medium=prnewswire&utm_campaign=scattered20
From the MISP threat-actor galaxy, MITRE ATT&CK and RansomLook (CC BY 4.0). Activity is any post or advisory Watch Floor collected that names the actor or one of its aliases.