Las Vegas police are announcing the arrest of a teenager suspected of helping to carry out crippling cyberattacks on local casino properties in 2023.
The arrest is the latest development in the ongoing investigation of ransomware attacks on MGM and Caesars properties.
In a press release on Friday, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department characterized the attacks as “sophisticated network intrusions.” As Channel 13 has reported, the attacks were attributed to what police have called “an organized threat-actor group known by several names to include Scattered Spider, Octo Tempest, UNC3944, and/or 0ktapus.”…