$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

The U.S. government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check, one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. U.S. authorities say 43-year-old Denis Kulkov’s card-checking service made him at least $18 million, which he used to buy a Ferrari, Land Rover, and other luxury items. Continue reading $10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

FBI takes down dark web marketplace for U.S. citizen personal data

The crime operation may have been connected to Joker’s Stash.

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After Joker’s Stash shutdown, the market for stolen financial data looks a lot different

The closure of the Joker’s Stash cybercrime forum put a lasting dent in the overall market for stolen payment-card data on the dark web, researchers say, amid other factors complicating business for crooks aiming to trade in illicit credit or debit card information. From mid-2020 to mid-2021, the value of the “carding” market fell to $1.4 billion, compared $1.9 billion during the same period a year earlier, according to cybersecurity company Group-IB, which attributes the shrinkage largely to the disappearance of Joker’s Stash. The FBI and Interpol disrupted the market’s digital infrastructure in December 2020, and by February 2021, it had shut down. The site hosted data dumps from all over the globe, including U.S. restaurant patrons and Indian bank customers. Criminal groups like the gang known as FIN7 knew they would find customers on the forum. (Those customers quickly scattered to myriad other sites.) While the market shift happened, […]

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FIN7 scammers posed as SEC officials, sick restaurant customers to hack victims

A hacking group known for innovative fraud techniques impersonated angry restaurant customers and targeted specific individuals with unique access to financial information, U.S. prosecutors argue in a court filing that sheds new light on the scammers’ work. The FIN7 gang, which researchers have blamed for more than $1 billion in theft since 2015, relied on more than 70 members who were assigned to various departments under the larger organization, according to court documents filed on June 17 in U.S. District Court in Seattle. By masquerading as a cybersecurity testing company dubbed Combi Security, FIN7 leaders organized their personnel into separate teams charged with developing malware, crafting phishing documents and collecting money from breached victims. The group targeted hundreds of U.S. companies, prosecutors say, infecting victims as diverse as the burrito chain Chipotle and the department store Saks Fifth Avenue. Court documents filed in the case of Andrii Kolpakov, who pleaded […]

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How Hydra, a Russian dark net market, made more than $1 billion in 2020

Russian-speaking dark web bazaar Hydra has dominated the illicit marketplace since 2018, thanks in part to the demise of a rival business as well as its imposition of restrictive policies on sellers, according to research published Tuesday. Hydra administrators have made transactions on the site more difficult to track by forcing users to transact in difficult-to-track Russian currencies, along with regional financial operators and service providers, according to the research. Dark web markets have typically relied on a variety of methods for withdrawing funds, from ATMs to escrow services. It adds up to a headache for law enforcement, potential competitors and other entities with an interest in disrupting Hydra, concludes the joint report by dark web intelligence firm Flashpoint and cryptocurrency-watching software company Chainalysis. Hydra specializes in narcotics sales. “Money laundering trails to Hydra are difficult, near impossible, to trace,” the companies said. “While the illicit trade of narcotics is problematic […]

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State of Underground Card Shops in 2021

(life after Joker’s Stash)   Table of Contents Introduction Active credit card shops FERum Shop Brian’s Club Thefreshstuffs Missing Credit Card Shops ValidCC VaultMarket Rescator Conclusions   Introduction    On February 15, 2021, after nearly 6.5 year… Continue reading State of Underground Card Shops in 2021

Joker’s Stash Carding Market to Call it Quits

Joker’s Stash, by some accounts the largest underground shop for selling stolen credit card and identity data, says it’s closing up shop effective mid-February 2021. The announcement came on the heels of a turbulent year for the major cybercrime store, and just weeks after U.S. and European authorities seized a number of its servers. Continue reading Joker’s Stash Carding Market to Call it Quits

Infamous cybercrime, carding market Joker’s Stash is shutting down

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The world’s largest digital carding marketplace Joker’s Stash to shut down its operations from February 15, 2021.
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A ‘coordinated police’ action against the Joker’s Stash took a small domain offline

An ongoing law enforcement operation has disrupted aspects of a leading website where internet scammers frequently buy and sell stolen data, according to the site’s administrators and multiple sources with visibility into the site.  A message posted Thursday on a forum at the Joker’s Stash, a marketplace where members have previously listed millions of payment cards stolen from U.S. restaurant chains, notifies members that “these bastards busted” an “external proxy server” connected to a section of the site. Other aspects of Joker’s Stash remained functioning normally at press time Thursday, though one researcher suggested the action represented a kind of warning to the site that has facilitated fraud since at least 2015.  “This relates to a coordinated police operational activity that is ongoing, and at this time we are not in a position to comment,” Interpol, the inter-governmental law enforcement organization based in France, said in an email. The affected […]

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