The United States government receives that the British teenager is accused of at least 120 “scattered spider”

On Thursday, the US Department of Justice canceled federal charges against the British teenager Talha Juber, who accuses public prosecutors of participating in at least 120 electronic attacks, including the American court system, and blackmailing dozens of American companies.

Jobar, 19, was arrested on Tuesday at his home in East London, according to statement By the National Crime Agency. He appeared before the court on Thursday morning in London, along with another teenager, Owen Flores, 18. Both are accused of participating in a 2024 Cyber-Heourshack targets London transportationThe governmental body that oversees the public transport system in London, which led to data breach and Recovering efforts for months.

The National Crime Agency said that the penetration of the Transit System Information Network in London is attributed to the scattered spider piracy group.

Jubair and flowers were held to appear before the court at a later time, For every BBC news.

The scattered spider is English -speaking collection Among the Internet gatherings are financially motivated, most of whom are adolescents and young people, sometimes indicating “Continuous adolescents” For skilled and repeated electronic attacks. These infiltrators are known for their ability to penetrate large numbers of companies often using relatively simple social engineering technologies, such as calling Helpdesk for information technology that pretends to be an employee who forgot their password and now needs a new one.

These infiltrators are also known for their participation with other infiltrators through a mysterious electronic group called “Com”, Referring to the electronic crime community that sometimes expresses the real world using physical threats and violence, including camouflage.

Federal fees for targeting American companies

As part of a A separate set of federal charges Prosecutors in New Jersey said that Jubair also faces computer, extortion and money laundering in relation to dozens of infiltrators who have seen corporate victims pay more than $ 115 million of ransom payments.

in His criminal complaint, The FBI said in July 2024 that he seized the servers they believed to be Jubair, and found evidence that Jubair was involved in the breakthroughs of at least 120 companies, including 47 companies in the United States.

According to the public prosecutors, Jubair used social engineering techniques to storm the company’s networks to steal internal data, encrypt the victim’s servers, then smiled victims to push infiltrators to cancel file lock.

One of the victims company included a critical infrastructure company in New Jersey. The FBI said evidence was found on one of the servers that it was run by Jubair, which included more than a GB of data stolen from the critical infrastructure company, as well as the date of browsing that showed clear evidence of logging in the critical infrastructure company servers.

Another violation of the Federal Investigation Office, which is alleged to be installed on Jubair, also guarantees access to the American court system.

During January 2025, it was claimed that Jubair and other infiltrators contacted Helpdesk aid to US courts to reach three user accounts, including a federal judge account, to search for information related to “scattered spider”.

The infiltrators also used one of the extracted accounts to submit the request to disclose emergency information for the customer’s information to an unveiled financial service provider, a common tactic used by these infiltrators to deceive companies to hand over the user information in response to what they believe is a legitimate legal request.

The FBI said that the seized server from Jubair was “used to conduct search operations” related to the penetration of American courts and was used to send an emergency request to the financial company.

Bloomberg I mentioned for the first time in August The scattered spider infiltrators stormed the American courts system to search for information related to the infiltrators, including the sealed indictment of the one The member who has been linked now From the scattered spider, Noah Urban.

It is claimed that Jubair servers contain an encrypted currency wallet that stores about $ 36 million at a time when they were seized, as many of them can be tracked to companies that paid a ransom, according to the Federal Investigation Office. But the FBI said that Jubair had transferred about $ 8.4 million from the wallet as the FBI was controlling the server.

It is not immediately clear whether the Ministry of Justice has or will seek to deliver Jubair, and a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice has not immediately commented.