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(Michael A. McCoy\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"79.481577866046\"><body readability=\"162.09830709831\"><\/p>\n<p>The FBI released a trove of research on <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/the-com-subculture-infamy-crimes\/\">The Com<\/a> last week, warning that the sprawling cybercriminal network of minors and young adults is growing rapidly and splintering into three primary subsets described by officials as Hacker Com, In Real Life Com and Extortion Com.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings lay out how The Com\u2019s thousands of members, typically between 11 and 25 years old, pose a rising threat, especially to youth online, the FBI said. Criminal acts committed by these multiple, interconnected networks include swatting, extortion and sextortion of minors, production and distribution of child sexual abuse material, violent crime and various other cybercrimes, the bureau said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe motivations behind the criminal activity vary, but often fall within one of the following: financial gain, retaliation, ideology, sexual gratification and notoriety,\u201d the FBI said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/PSA\/2025\/PSA250723-3#fn5\">public service announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crimes attributed to members of The Com have grown increasingly complex, with perpetrators going to great lengths to mask identities, hide financial transactions and launder money. The Com generally targets young and impressionable people for recruitment on gaming sites and social media platforms to indoctrinate them into their ideology, officials said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Various subsections of this group have been linked to high-profile crimes over the past few years. In April, two men accused of leading a Com offshoot known as \u201c764\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/leaders-764-arrested-and-charged-operating-global-child-exploitation-enterprise\">were charged with<\/a> operating an international child exploitation enterprise. Scattered Spider, another offshoot, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/scattered-spider-social-engineering-cybercrime\/\">tends to focus on cybercrime<\/a> like ransomware and data extortion. <\/p>\n<p>Allison Nixon, chief research officer at Unit 221B, commended the level of detail the FBI shared across the series of PSAs, noting that the agency left nothing of importance out of its warnings. Nixon has studied domestic and English-speaking cybercrime and tracked its rise for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe assessments in this PSA are consistent with what we have seen. There has been a population explosion in The Com and it is good to see law enforcement respond to this \u2014 not just with a PSA but with real crackdowns,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully this PSA helps the public understand that many cybercrime arrests nowadays implicate gang violence and sexual crime against children, by children.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hacker-com\">Hacker Com<\/h5>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hacker Com members are involved in a vast array of cybercrime activities, including distributed denial-of-service attacks, personally identifiable information theft, the sale of government email accounts, ransomware attacks, phishing, malware development and deployment, cryptocurrency theft, intrusions and SIM swapping, according to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/scattered-spider-social-engineering-cybercrime\/\">Scattered Spider<\/a>, which is responsible for attacks on more than 100 businesses since 2022, is included in this subset.<\/p>\n<p>This subset of The Com uses remote access trojans, phishing kits, voice over internet protocol providers, voice modulators, virtual private networks, cryptocurrency cash-out services, live-streaming services and encrypted email domains, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen-source information indicates Hacker Com groups are responsible for high-profile attacks and intrusions and have affiliations with ransomware organizations,\u201d the FBI said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/PSA\/2025\/PSA250723\">PSA dedicated solely to Hacker Com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group also has been observed using the same attack methods against each other. The FBI warning details how internal conflicts are common among members of The Com. Personal disputes or rivalries \u2014 often over cryptocurrency \u2014 frequently lead Hacker Com members to attack and steal from one another, the FBI said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-in-real-life-irl-com\">In Real Life (IRL) Com<\/h5>\n<p>Some Com subgroups have gone beyond digital means, offering swat-for-hire services and targeting members for swatting and doxxing, kidnapping and physical extortion, which the FBI refers to as \u201cIRL Com.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intensification of these online conflicts has resulted in the emergence of a new layer of The Com known as In Real Life (IRL) Com, which includes subgroups that aim to facilitate real world acts of violence, oftentimes resulting from online conflicts,\u201d the FBI said.<\/p>\n<p>Acts of physical violence have intensified and expanded to other layers of The Com, as multiple subgroups adopt similar methods of retaliation, the FBI said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/PSA\/2025\/PSA250723-2\">PSA dedicated solely to IRL Com<\/a>. Some subgroups advertise contracts on messaging apps or other social media networks to commit violence or swatting for payment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIRL Com groups also see swatting as a way of gaining credibility among members; the more attention a swatting incident gets, the more attention the member receives from the group,\u201d the FBI said. \u201cLeaders from IRL Com groups may use swatting to ensure members of the group remain obedient. When members of the IRL Com group disobey orders or refuse to comply with demands, the member or the member\u2019s family may become the target of swatting.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-extortion-com\">Extortion Com<\/h5>\n<p>The FBI also released a PSA about a subgroup it calls \u201cExtortion Com,\u201d which \u201csystematically targets underage females\u201d and vulnerable populations, including children and those who struggle with mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictims are typically between the ages of 10 and 17 years old, but the FBI has seen some victims as young as 9 years old,\u201d the FBI said in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/PSA\/2025\/PSA250306\">PSA<\/a>. \u201cThreat actors often groom their victims by first establishing a trusting or romantic relationship before eventually manipulating and coercing them into engaging in escalating harmful behavior designed to shame and isolate them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials said these acts are driven by a range of personal motives, including the pursuit of social status, sexual gratification or a sense of belonging. <\/p>\n<p>The FBI warns that members of this subgroup manipulate or coerce their victims to produce pornographic material or other videos depicting animal cruelty and self-harm, oftentimes further threatening to share the material with victims\u2019 families, friends or other public communities on the internet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/764-leaders-arrested-charged-child-sextortion\/\">alleged leaders of the child sextortion group 764 were arrested<\/a> and charged for directing and distributing CSAM in April. The two men, Leonidas Varagiannis and Prasan Nepal, are accused of exploiting at least eight minor victims, some as young as 13 years old, and face charges that carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Officials advised people to look for warning signs that a victim may be targeted by The Com and shared resources for help, including the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/report.cybertip.org\/\">CyberTipline<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/takeitdown.ncmec.org\/\">Take It Down service<\/a>. Victims are encouraged to retain all information about an incident and immediately report to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ic3.gov\/\">FBI\u2019s Internet Crime Complaint Center<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/contact-us\/field-offices\">FBI Field Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.219964664311\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"14\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/fbi-alerts-tie-together-threats-of-cybercrime-physical-violence-from-the-com-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Matt Kapko\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Matt Kapko<\/h4>\n<p> Matt Kapko is a reporter at CyberScoop. His beat includes cybercrime, ransomware, software defects and vulnerability (mis)management. 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