Early Scattered Spider member pleads guilty to cybercrime spree
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Another core member of the hacker subset of The Com involved in a spree of extortion attacks from at least 2021 to 2023 pleaded guilty to federal charges, according to court records released Tuesday.
Ahmed Hossam Eldin Elbadawy, a 24-year-old from Texas, pleaded guilty exactly one year ago to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. His guilty plea wasn’t shared publicly until prosecutors filed an order of forfeiture this week seeking proceeds from Elbadawy’s criminal activities.
Elbadawy and his co-conspirators — Noah Michael Urban, a Florida man sentenced to 10 years in prison last year, and Tyler Robert Buchanan, a Scottish man who pleaded guilty to multiple cybercrimes in April and awaits sentencing — were part of an aggressive subset of The Com coined Scattered Spider .