SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks
SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks
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Publish Date: 2026-02-25 10:06:00
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The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH) has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks.
The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. The group is said to be offering anywhere between $500 and $1,000 upfront per call, in addition to providing them with the necessary pre-written scripts to carry out the attack.
“SLH is diversifying its social engineering pool by specifically recruiting women to conduct vishing attacks, likely to increase the success rate of help desk impersonation,” the threat intelligence firm said.
A high-profile cybercrime supergroup comprising LAPSUS$, Scattered Spider, and ShinyHunters, SLH has a record of engaging in advanced social engineering attacks to sidestep multi-factor authentication (MFA) through techniques like MFA prompt bombing and SIM swapping.
The group’s modus operandi also involves targeting help desks and call centers to breach companies by posing as employees and convincing them to reset a password or install a remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool that grants them remote access. Once initial access is obtained, Scattered Spider has been observed moving laterally to virtualized environments, escalating privileges, and exfiltrating sensitive corporate data.
Some of these attacks have further led to the deployment of ransomware. Another hallmark of these attacks is the use of legitimate services and residential proxy networks (e.g., Luminati and OxyLabs) to blend in and evade detection. Scattered Spider actors have used various tunneling tools like Ngrok, Teleport, and Pinggy, as well as free file-sharing services such as file.io, gofile.io, mega.nz, and transfer.sh.
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| SLH’s Telegram post to recruit women |
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