SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years
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Summary
Noah Michael Urban was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $13m in restitution after pleading guilty to charges of wire fraud and conspiracy during SIM-swapping attacks.
Urban was a member of the cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, also known as Oktapus, Scatter Swine and UNC3944, which specialised in smishing and vishing attacks that tricked employees at more than 130 companies into disclosing their login credentials.
The group used the access to steal both company data and customer information, as well as to phish people to steal cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars.
Urban also bragged on cybercriminal forums and on Twitter under the aliases King Bob and Sosa.
His tenure in the latter group, Star Fraud, saw the group claim it had insider access to mobile provider T-Mobile on 100 occasions in 2022.