"Of course, the ad isn't for a legitimate job at all. It's a recruiting post to join a criminal underground organization, where the job is undertaking ransomware attacks against big corporations. And the 'gig' workers being recruited are largely kids in middle and high schools. The enterprise is called The Com, short for "The Community," and it includes about 1,000 people involved in numerous ephemeral associations and business partnerships, including those known as Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, Lapsus$, SLSH, and other iterations."
"Since 2022, the pipeline has successfully infiltrated U.S. and UK companies with a collective market cap valuation of more than $1 trillion with data breaches, theft, account compromise, phishing, and extortion campaigns. Some 120 companies have been targeted, including brands such as Chick-fil-A, Instacart, Louis Vuitton, Morningstar, News Corporation, Nike, Tinder, T-Mobile, and Vodafone, according to research from cyber intelligence firm Silent Push and court records."
The Com is an underground criminal collective that recruits primarily teenagers to perform cyberattacks. Recruitment messages prioritize female candidates, accept inexperienced applicants with training, require weekday availability from 12 pm to 6 pm EST, and offer $300 per successful call paid in cryptocurrency. The network comprises about 1,000 participants operating through shifting affiliations such as Scattered Spider, ShinyHunters, Lapsus$, and SLSH. Since 2022 the group has breached roughly 120 U.S. and UK companies with a combined market-cap over $1 trillion, using phishing, account compromise, data theft, ransomware, and extortion while leveraging youths' technical skills and social savvy.
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