A 20-year-old Florida man, part of the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider, has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison and ordered to pay approximately $13 million in restitution. He pleaded guilty in April 2025 to counts including wire fraud and conspiracy. Prosecutors revealed that between August 2022 and March 2023, he and his associates executed SIM-swapping attacks that diverted victims’ phone calls and text messages to devices under their control. Through these attacks, they stole at least $800,000 from five victims and breached more than 130 companies by tricking employees into entering credentials and one-time passcodes into fake authentication pages. The resulting access allowed the sale of stolen proprietary data and the theft of digital currency.

Despite prosecutors recommending an eight-year sentence, the judge imposed the full 120-month term and added three years of supervised release after imprisonment. The restitution amount accounts for victims in both Florida and California cases against him. Known by aliases such as King Bob, Sosa, Elijah, Gustavo Fring, and Anthony Ramirez, he was prominently active in hacker communities on Telegram and Discord, often boasting about high-profile SIM-swap exploits and stolen unreleased music. During his incarceration process, a co-defendant even attempted to hack a magistrate judge’s email to access sealed court documents—an intrusion later highlighted in court transcripts and denounced by the presiding judge.

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Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/sim-swapper-scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years/