Summary
Share on X X.com Share on Facebook Facebook Email Email The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning the public about Hacker Com, one of three subsets of the growing and evolving online threat group known as The Com, short for The Community. The Com is a primarily English speaking, international, online ecosystem comprised of multiple interconnected networks whose members, many of whom are minors, engage in a variety of criminal violations. Members of Hacker Com typically have a shared interest, ideology, or goal and work together, adding others to the group and splintering when necessary, to achieve their mission. Hacker Com involves a broad community of technically sophisticated cyber criminals, some of whom are linked to ransomware-as-a service (RaaS) groups. Members of Hacker Com often sell technical services for a profit and use their technical capabilities to steal cryptocurrency to fund other criminal activity. Computer-related criminal activity within Hacker Com includes, but is not limited to, distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, compromise of personally identifiable information, sale of government email accounts, ransomware attacks, phishing, malware development and deployment, cryptocurrency theft, computer intrusions, and subscriber identity module (SIM) swapping 1 .