[jjmarr]

> In August 2025, three of the most notorious financially-motivated crews on the planet, ShinyHunters, Scattered Spider, and LAPSUS$, formally combined into a coordinated alliance widely tracked as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH), sometimes called “the Trinity of Chaos” (Resecurity; Cyberbit; Infosecurity Magazine; The Hacker News; Computer Weekly; ReliaQuest). Scattered Spider provides initial access through highly-effective social engineering and vishing. ShinyHunters handles exfiltration, leak-site management, and extortion. LAPSUS$ contributes its own brand of identity-system compromise.

Lmao that cybercriminals are closing M&A deals to create vertically integrated SaaS companies.

Do you think anyone was made redundant through kinetic means?

[alephnerd]

These kinds of groups operate as businesses and in some cases government agencies. It would be the same experience as working for any other tech company.

[jjmarr]

I know. There's a sense of schadenfreude that the Russian hackers are suffering through a big re-org right now.

[alephnerd]

Yep, but they'll land on their feet. Probably negotiate an ML Infra or SecEng role at Yandex.