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Paul Foster, the head of the national cybercrime unit at Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA), said the ongoing investigation into a spate of recent cyberattacks against the retail sector was considering “a range” of different perpetrators who could have been responsible.

Among these is an international threat group tracked as Scattered Spider, Foster acknowledged to BBC News, but he stressed the NCA was considering different hypotheses and was going to “follow the evidence to get to the offenders.”

The similarities between attacks previously attributed to Scattered Spider and a spate of incidents impacting British retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and the London-based luxury store Harrods, have prompted speculation that the loosely-affiliated criminal subculture is involved, however there has not yet been a confident assessment from professionals that this is the case.

Google warned last week that while it suspected the attacks were “linked to UNC3944, also known as Scattered Spider,” it could not confirm whether they were part of the same criminal grouping.