{"id":56618,"date":"2024-07-19T22:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-cops-arrest-teen-suspect-in-mgm-resorts-cyberattack-probe\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T22:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:02:48","slug":"uk-cops-arrest-teen-suspect-in-mgm-resorts-cyberattack-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/uk-cops-arrest-teen-suspect-in-mgm-resorts-cyberattack-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM Resorts cyberattack probe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cops in the UK have arrested a suspected member of the notorious Scattered Spider crime gang, which is accused of crippling MGM Resorts in Las Vegas with ransomware last summer.<\/p>\n

West Midlands police – along with officials from Britain’s National Crime Agency and the FBI – cuffed the 17-year-old, of Walsall, England, on Thursday. The suspect, whose name has not been released, was taken into custody on suspicion of blackmail and breaking the UK’s Computer Misuse Act. He’s now out on bail.<\/p>\n

The swoop \u2013 which comes about a month after Spanish police arrested<\/a> the suspected leader of Scattered Spider \u2013 is part of a larger international probe into “a large-scale cyber hacking community which has targeted a number of major companies which includes MGM Resorts,” British police said on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The ransomware infection at MGM, which shut down<\/a> its IT systems and casinos, cost the US entertainment giant upwards of $100 million<\/a> (\u00a377 million) to clean up, it reports.<\/p>\n

Gangs like the Scattered Spider crew “successfully targeted multiple victims around the world taking from them significant amounts of money,” said<\/a> West Midlands Detective Inspector Hinesh Mehta.<\/p>\n