When big breaches happen and hundreds of millions of credit card numbers and SSNs get stolen, they resurface in other places. The underground now offers a vast landscape of shops, where criminals can buy credit cards and other things at irresistible prices. Million dollar breaches News and media coverage on significant breaches are increasingly shaping…
Read MoreMonitoring the cybercriminal underground sometimes leads us down some interesting paths. We recently encountered a cybercriminal posting in a Russian underground forum which led to the discovery of more than 136,000 stolen credit card credentials. Help in all the wrong places The trail started with the following post on a Russian underground forum. Figure 1. Post…
Read MoreThe Russian Underground has been around (in an organized manner) since 2004, and has been used both as a marketplace and an information exchange platform. Some well-known centers of the Russian underground include zloy.org, DaMaGeLab, and XaKePoK.NeT. Initially, these forums were used primarily to exchange information, but their roles as marketplaces have become more prominent. Many parts of the…
Read MoreBefore the end of the month, we will release a new paper in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series titled Russian Underground Revisited. This is a followup to our earlier paper Russian Underground 101; both papers examined the Russian Underground and looked at the goods and services being sold inside these underground communities. While the full details will not…
Read MoreAn iPad with a retina display, a blue iPhone and a Beats by Dr. Dre headphone set, please. This may read like a Christmas wish list of a spoiled child, but there’s more: a red dot aimpoint for a rifle, six high-end hard drives from Intel, a GPS rescue device for sailors. These are uncommon…
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