The Teen Behind Scattered Spider - and How Windows Caught Him | 2 Minute Drill with Drex DeFord

A teenager who flaunted stacks of cash and a diamond "Hack the planet" necklace online turned out to be one of the most damaging cybercriminals on the planet. Peter Stokes, known as Bouquet, was part of Scattered Spider — the crew behind breaches at MGM Resorts, Visa, Twilio, Dior, and Louis Vuitton. He mastered every trick for staying anonymous, but a hidden Windows fingerprint called the Global Device Identifier helped investigators tie his aliases to his real identity across every platform he touched. Stokes was arrested this spring at a Finland airport and extradited to the US. Drex breaks down how the case unraveled, why service-desk social engineering is not a hypothetical for healthcare, and why researcher Alison Nixon had this network mapped years before the arrest.

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