{"id":21279,"date":"2025-12-19T13:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-com-the-growing-cybercrime-network-behind-recent-pornhub-hack\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:37:32","slug":"the-com-the-growing-cybercrime-network-behind-recent-pornhub-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-com-the-growing-cybercrime-network-behind-recent-pornhub-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Com: the growing cybercrime network behind recent Pornhub hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal ecosystem made up of mostly male native English language speakers aged from 16 to 25<\/p>\n<p>Ransomware hacks, data theft, crypto scams and sextortion cover a broad range of cybercrimes carried out by an equally varied list of assailants.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/19\/the-com-cybercrime-network-behind-pornhub-hack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b4a60fb59a988517de97b303ecda1983c415d637\/183_0_3333_2667\/master\/3333.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=df30facfec8fbee2ccec1445c27912af\" title=\"The Com: the growing cybercrime network behind recent Pornhub hack\" \/>Criminal ecosystem made up of mostly male native English language speakers aged from 16 to 25<br \/>\nRansomware hacks, data theft, crypto scams and sextortion cover a broad range of cybercrimes carried out by an equally varied list of assailants.<br \/>\nBut there is also an English-speaking criminal ecosystem carrying out these activities that defies conventional categorisation. Nonetheless, it does have a name: the Com. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal ecosystem made up of mostly male native English language speakers aged from 16 to 25 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. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/the-com-the-growing-cybercrime-network-behind-recent-pornhub-hack\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Com: the growing cybercrime network behind recent Pornhub hack<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}