'The Com' Cyberattacks Support Violence & Sexploitation

The report profiles "The Com," a diffuse North American-centric criminal collective and its splinter hacker groups (Scattered Lapsus$, ShinyHunters) that have targeted cloud and SaaS platforms (Okta, Salesforce, Microsoft365) to conduct high-impact breaches, extortion, ransomware, DDoS and SIM-swap attacks; it also documents overlap between their cybercriminal activities and real-world violent crimes and child sexual exploitation, warning that the group's cross-functional structure increases risk and radicalizes young members.