{"id":6004,"date":"2026-02-01T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.22\/?p=6004"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:05:36","slug":"april-2025-marks-spencer-and-the-uk-retail-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/?p=6004","title":{"rendered":"April 2025: Marks &#038; Spencer and the UK Retail Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail giant <strong>Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S)<\/strong> was the face of a coordinated ransomware campaign in April. The <strong>Scattered Spider<\/strong> group exploited Active Directory credentials to paralyze M&amp;S online ordering and click-and-collect services for six weeks, costing an estimated \u00a3300 million. Other UK retailers, including the <strong>Co-op<\/strong>, were similarly hit. The attackers leveraged social engineering and MFA fatigue to gain access. These breaches demonstrated the fragility of just-in-time retail logistics when faced with aggressive, human-operated ransomware groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail giant Marks &amp; Spencer (M&amp;S) was the face of a coordinated ransomware campaign in April. The Scattered Spider group exploited Active Directory credentials to paralyze M&amp;S online ordering and click-and-collect services for six weeks, costing an estimated \u00a3300 million. Other UK retailers, including the Co-op, were similarly hit. The attackers leveraged social engineering and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyber-attacks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamglover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}