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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters exploit Zendesk in widespread spam campaign

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters are exploiting Zendesk's ticket system to conduct large-scale spam and phishing campaigns, abusing a convenience feature that sends ticket notifications to email addresses without proper validation or rate limiting. Zendesk administrators should implement aggressive email filtering on Zendesk-originated messages, review and tighten security settings (particularly CAPTCHA requirements and SPF/DKIM verification), and monitor for suspicious ticket creation patterns, as the threat actors are targeting publicly exposed email addresses scraped from GitHub and other sources to bypass spam filters using Zendesk's trusted sender reputation.