---
title: "Spidering Through Identity for Profit and Disruption"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/spidering-through-identity-for-profit-and-disruption-vy5dya3gm
source_url: https://www.huntress.com/blog/spidering-through-identity-for-profit-and-disruption
type: article
source: "Huntress Blog"
published: 2026-05-31T07:42:51.192Z
updated: 2026-05-31T08:26:56.031Z
tags: ["security", "authentication", "ransomware"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Spidering Through Identity for Profit and Disruption

**[Huntress Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/huntress-blog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Analysis of the September 2023 cyberattacks on MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment, attributed to the threat actor Scattered Spider. The group used social engineering tactics including impersonating IT staff, phishing, SIM swapping, and MFA fatigue attacks to hijack employee identities and gain initial access. The post argues that defenders must extend their security perimeter beyond traditional network boundaries to monitor cloud services and identity providers, implement user logon profiling, and correlate MFA abuse signals — rather than blaming individual users for falling for sophisticated social engineering.

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Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#ransomware](https://daily.dev/tags/ransomware)

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