Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters offering $10 in Bitcoin to 'endlessly harass' execs

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 …

[mark l 2]

I mean how are they to know that someone has sent an email. It would be trivial to fake a screen shot of a sent email to the Salesforce execs and forward that to these malware scum as evidence you have sent an harassing email, without any actual harassment taking place.

I'm sure there are people countries where the hourly wage is a lot less than $10 an hour who will happily do that all day.

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Oh boy!

Ten whole dollars? Now I can buy that banana!

[tiggity]

Re: Oh boy!

@Throatwarbler Mangrove

$10 will not buy this one

???

[MiguelC]

Re: Oh boy!

No, but you can just eat it for free

[Blazde]

Re: Oh boy!

Forget the ten dollars, if you do it enough times you might get free bananas and the use of a very modest shared bedroom with en-suite toilet every day for a good long stretch..

[DS999]

Re: Oh boy!

They aren't pricing it for people in wealthy countries. In places where you make less than half of that $10 per day, this offer may be more attractive. The internet means you can harass from anywhere, and if you're halfway around the world you're mostly immune to prosecution for phone/email threats. The biggest barrier is probably needing to speak some basic level of English for the threat to be understood by the victim.

[MiguelC]

"The poor grammar and spelling errors throughout their communications —including misspelling "negotiate" as "negociate" — cast doubt on claims that the group comprises native English speakers."

Because reddit and xitter and the likes are written as Encyclopedia Britannica

[TeeCee]

Yes, you're right. They could just be perfectly ordinary soshal meejah retards.

[David 132]

Exactly. Exhibit A, that clown who went on a destructive rampage in Missouri, and according to the Register's coverage of him last week:

Schaefer asserted that he "was being chull ab it," which we believe translates to a claim he was being nonchalant during the commission of his alleged crimes. "It felt rrlly nice to fucktheir dhit up," Schaefer added before going on to explain that "it was me" and "i did thatz"

"Native English speaker" is a meaningless concept these days, it would seem.

[that one in the corner]

L33t hax0r sk1llz

> With entire C-suites to contact, that's a lot of emailing.

Can't manage a quick loop with macro-replace "Deer $victim$ pleeze pay up" and pipe into blat or curl?

[IGotOut]

They're not to bright after all....

If they think that a CEO reads a single email sent to them, without going through a PA , is clearly deluded.

As one PA to the CEO I used to work for once said "If he read even 10% of the emails sent to him, he'd have a breakdown by mid afternoon"

[TrevorH]

So, how long a period in jail for harassment does $10 buy you?

[Blazde]

I was going to say you'd be party to an extortion which is rather more serious than harassment, but I notice the US Federal version of extortion as it applies to reputation and property appears surprisingly weak (2 year maximum sentence). So they'd presumably use the annoyingly ubiquitous wire fraud which carries 20 years and is so broad it essentially just means you did 'something naughty involving wires'. Why on the earth crims haven't yet learnt to avoid using wires (or the mail service or computers) beats me. There aren't that many ransomware charges but wire fraud seems to be the go to.

Here in the UK extortion carries 14 years.

I'm not a legal expert though. $10 should be enough to get a cheap lawyer to read your charge sheet to you and explain the bigger words.

[cookiecutter]

lols

this is genius!!! And i find it hilarious... maybe if these execs hadn't spent decades fucking the industry they wouldn't have to up with this...

[JPCavendish]

Re: lols

You an I have wildly differing interpretations of the word 'genius'...

[cookiecutter]

Re: lols

comedy genius. since most of the slop on facebook is created by people on bing trying to earn sub $100/month, this will be used heavily in 3rd world countries where ppl will set up emails very quickly, send them and is a whole new level of spam.

I have ZERO sympathy for firms like marks & spencer or JLR or the multitude of corporates who will get hit by this kind of thing because "outsourcing" & "shareholder value"

eg the M&S ransomware hack that had cost them £300 million could have been avoided with the most BASIC of controls. But apparently shareholder value (read: CEO wages) was more important than actually having a good team, plans & a recovery solution.

so yes... fuck em all

[JPCavendish]

Re: lols

Ok so you support cybercrime, extortion and ransomware. Got it.

You do know that the execs don't have to pay out of their own pocket, right? They won't be the ones losing, apart from a bit of email inconvenience? When a company gets hit by a major cyber attack, pays an extortionate ransom or even goes bankrupt, it will hit normal people first. Normal employees, normal shareholders and pension funds. The execs will likely move on, whereas John and Sally Average might lose their mortgages.

So yes well done you. Keep on cheering; all you'll end up doing is hitting normal people trying to live one day at a time.

[cookiecutter]

Re: lols

and yet it's those normal people who voted to let things like this happen or didn't vote at all.

factory jobs being offshored in the 80s & 90s? so what? everything privatised? so what? slave labour used to produce sea food? so what? factories burning down in bangladesh killing a 1000 people? who cares? those tops are sweeeeet & only £5!

banks destroyed the economy? no no no, let's not send bankers to jail, let's attack the dirty hippies camping on concrete & vote for even more money to get shovelled upwards.

now higher paid jobs being sent over too, the skills needed to stop this stuff? who cares?

as CEOs get mostly paid in stock , share collapse caused by this kind of thing DOES hurt them. Rich people live on borrowed money with loans taken out against share prices. The share price collapses, the banks WILL call on the loans.

[JPCavendish]

Re: lols

Ohh. You're one of them.

Goodbye.

[Anonymous Coward]

We are Lapsu$, we are legacy.

We do not make feeds, we do not retweet.

Expect e-mail!