"Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters has launched an unusual crowdsourced extortion scheme, offering $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to help pressure their alleged victims into paying ransoms.. The cybercrime collective is encouraging followers to email senior executives at organizations it claims to have breached, urging them to pay up and avoid publicity about the group's new data leak site. Those who contact executives through personal email accounts will receive higher rewards,"
"The method of outsourcing extortion attempts is novel for cybercriminals, and perhaps necessary, given the number of organizations allegedly caught up in a breach, which stands at 39. With entire C-suites to contact, that's a lot of emailing. "You have permission to endlessly harass these executives till they comply with us," the group wrote. "When we tell you stop emailing a company or number of executives emails, you are to stop emailing them. This will be centralized and well operated.""
Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offered $10 in Bitcoin to anyone willing to pressure alleged victims into paying ransoms, with higher rewards for contacts using personal email accounts and potential larger payouts for exceptional work. Communications contained poor grammar and spelling errors, casting doubt on claims of native English speakers. The group announced the initiative via Telegram and published an instructions document listing executives' contact details. The group described the method as centralized and authorized followers to repeatedly harass executives until compliance. The collective listed 39 alleged victims from an intrusion at Salesforce, set an October 10 deadline for Salesforce, and threatened to target individual customers.
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