Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in bizarre hacking campaign

Are you willing to hack and take control of Chinese websites for a random person for up to $100,000 a month? Someone is making precisely that tantalizing, bizarre, and clearly sketchy job offer. The person is using what looks like a series of fake accounts with avatars displaying photos of attractive women and sliding into the direct messages of several cybersecurity professionals and researchers on X in the last couple of weeks. “We are recruiting webshell engineers and teams to penetrate Chinese websites worldwide, with a monthly salary of up to $100,000. If you are interested, you can join our channel first,” read the message, which included a link to a Telegram channel. For some reason, I also received this message from an X account named “Look at my homepage,” which had a username, @JerelLayce88010, that looked like it was randomly generated. When I followed the link, I was able to see the admin of the channel, someone who goes by the name “Jack” and has an AI-generated avatar ... Read full article.