Twin assaults on MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment have offered an unusual perspective at what happens when two comparable organisations, under similar attack by the same threat actor, use divergent incident response techniques.
Both parties in this case were the victims of a cyberattack called Scattered Spider /ALPHV. Caesars was able to resume operations very soon after engaging in a fast negotiation with the cyber attackers and paying a $15 million ransom demand.
However, MGM firmly refused to pay and only recently declared that its operations had resumed after more than 10 days of operational downtime at its hotels and casinos, costing the company tens of millions of dollars in lost income.
Although it may be tempting to judge which strategy was superior, experts believe that any direct comparison of the Caesars and MGM responses to the incident is oversimplified.
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