Two online hubs for stolen credit cards found themselves on the receiving end of hack-and-leak operations last month. User data from the card store Swarmshop was posted to a different underground forum on March 17, exposing hundreds of thousands of compromised payment card records, security vendor Group-IB said in a report out Thursday. That follows news from last month that another forum, Carding Mafia, had been hacked, also exposing hundreds of thousands of user accounts. Word of the nefarious activity only is the latest drama to emerge from the cybercriminal underground. Another notorious forum, Joker’s Stash, recently shut down after attention from global law enforcement officials. In an unrelated case, a Russian man pleaded guilty in January to running an illicit hosting service meant to further fraud schemes. In the case of Swarmshop, it’s also actually the second time cybercriminals have targeted it. “While the source of the breach remains unclear, […]
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