The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

The report exposes an interconnected ecosystem of English‑speaking cybercriminals and Russian ransomware gangs—highlighting the ALPHV/BlackCat intrusion that disrupted MGM Resorts and widespread Snowflake data exfiltrations that led to extortion of 160+ organizations (including an AT&T breach impacting ~110M customers)—and documents how these financially motivated actors overlap with 'harm communities' that coerce, extort, and abuse minors using SIM‑swapping, social engineering, doxing, swatting and other violent tactics; it names key groups, aliases, incidents, and resulting arrests and prosecutions.