Ransomware hacks, data theft, crypto scams and sextortion cover a broad range of cybercrimes carried out by an equally varied list of assailants. But there is also an English-speaking criminal ecosystem carrying out these activities that defies conventional categorisation. Nonetheless, it does have a name: the Com. Short for community, the Com is a loose affiliation of cyber-criminals, largely native English language speakers typically aged from 16 to 25.
During the conference, Branco: argued that those arrested were young autistic people who were very technically talented and could be of great benefit to their country, but instead they had been arrested and could be going away for 20 years. claimed that Kering and LVMH, two victims of attacks, had pressured the French government to make arrests. claimed that French law enforcement was taking orders/direction from the FBI.