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RSA panelists cry out for help to missing feds
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RSAC 2026 Back in the day (circa 2023) when cybercrime group Scattered Spider and its help-desk voice-phishing calls were a relatively new threat, the feds considered pulling the government's top cyber-threat hunters and their private-sector counterparts into one room to share information, in real time, about this loosely knit extortion ring that was terrorizing enterprises.
Key facts
- Attorney David Lashway, who co-chairs Sidley Austin's global privacy and cybersecurity practice, said the empty chair should not be symbolically occupied/left-empty by the US government
- Scattered Spider was evolving so quickly, and there were private-sector partners who had such exquisite information and intelligence," EY managing director Dave Scott said on an RSAC panel Monday
- So many of these challenges are blended," said Wendi Whitmore, chief security intelligence officer at Palo Alto Networks
- Most of the Volt Typhoon sightings on utility owners and operators' networks, and the Salt Typhoon intrusions into telecommunications networks happened on private-sector infrastructure
Summary
"Scattered Spider was evolving so quickly, and there were private-sector partners who had such exquisite information and intelligence," EY managing director Dave Scott said on an RSAC panel Monday morning. While the private-sector intelligence analysts were moving fast, "here we were, with the government, and waiting for legal process and then waiting for the approvals and everything else to share that information," Scott remembered. Proposed is the key word. Scott made these comments during a panel discussion titled Inside the Hunt for China's Typhoons: Disrupt, Deter, and Defend.