Cybercrime doesn’t wait for anything or anyone. Two years after publishing our last report on the wares and services traded in the bustling Chinese underground, we found that the market’s operations have further expanded. From traditional malware, Chinese cybercriminals are now looking toward newer innovations and technologies to boost their operations. The Chinese underground now…
Read MoreOn several underground forums, a cybercriminal named gripper is selling ATM skimmers and fake POS terminals, and is making some very bold claims doing so: Figure 1. Underground advertisement. The cybercriminal claims that he can mass-produce VeriFone VerixV point-of-sale (PoS) devices. (Verifone is a US-based provider of POS terminals.) Some specific VeriFone products such as the Vx510,…
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