Arguably the biggest cybersecurity event of the year so far was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) arresting suspected members of the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) ransomware group on 14 Jan 2022. News of this operation, which reportedly occurred at the request of US authorities, rocked the cybersecurity community and has led to endless debates about […]
With every year that passes, Black Friday seems to morph into a creation its original proponents could not have even envisioned. Not so long ago, it was simply the day following Thanksgiving in the United States (US), when retailers would offer sales and discounts to mark the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Now, Black […]
It’s that time of year again. Summer is drawing to a close and retailers are making the most of the rush to stock up on supplies and learning materials before classes begin. However, as we highlighted last year in our Inside Online Carding Courses Designed for Cybercriminals report, a market has emerged for a very […]
Payment card information is the lifeblood of the cybercriminal ecosystem. In previous blogs in this series, we’ve focused on how cybercriminals acquire customer banking information using banking trojans and phishing campaigns. However, this merely represents the initial steps that form one part of a wider payment card fraud network. This post focuses on the three […]
An emerging criminal market, Genesis store, provides more effective ways to impersonate a victim’s browser activity, focusing on individual bots rather than huge botnets, and monetizing them in a completely different way. Such an approach may allow criminals to utilize bots with higher efficiency, thus revealing new attack and fraud methods. Figure 1: Adverts […]
On 07 February 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice unveiled an indictment from 31 October 2017 against 36 individuals associated with the Infraud Forum, a cybercriminal forum specializing in payment card fraud. This was a result of an operation known as “Shadow Web” and claimed to make “one of the largest cyberfraud enterprise prosecutions ever […]
In season two of the Netflix series Narcos, Pablo Escobar points out that: “I’m not a rich person. I’m a poor person with money.” In real-life, Escobar’s cartel reportedly made so much money (at one point $US420 million a week) that their chief accountant, Roberto Escobar, claimed that they “would write off 10% of the […]