Russian police arrested six people individuals, allegedly members of a crime ring involved in the theft and selling of stolen credit cards. Another success of Russian police that arrested six people allegedly members of a crime gang involved in the theft and selling of stolen credit cards. The arrests were ordered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of th

UniCC, the largest site on the dark web that sells credit card and debit card information, will close up shop for good, taking its affiliate site, LuxSocks, with it, too. According to Elliptic, a company that offers risk solutions for cryptoassets, the unknown UniCC administrators have made an estimated $358M USD in cryptocurrency for selling stolen credit c

One of the biggest underground carding marketplaces, UniCC, announced it’s shutting down its operations. UniCC, one of the biggest underground carding marketplaces announced it is shutting down. The site was launched in 2013 and according to the Elliptic Threat Intel about $358 million (across Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether and Dash) in purchases were made thro

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, discovered that user data of the Swarmshop card shop have been leaked online on March 17, 2021. The database was posted on a different underground forum and contained 12,344 records of the card shop admins, sellers and buyers including their nicknames,

Carding Action 2020 targeted crooks selling/purchasing compromised card data on sites selling stolen cred itcard data and darkweb marketplaces Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company, has supported Carding Action 2020 – a cross-border operation led by Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) with the support from law enforcement agen

Check Point researchers detailed the activity of a prolific cyber-criminal known as ‘Dton’ that earned at least $100,000 US from his operations. Over the past few months, experts at Check Point have monitored the activity of a prolific cyber-criminal known as ‘Dton’. The man is active at least since 2013 and already earned at least $100,000 US from his ‘w

The Russian hacker Petr Levashov has been indicted in connection with the infamous Kelihos Botnet that was recently dismantled. It isn’t a good period for Russian cyber criminals, last week Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, aka “Track2”, was sentenced to 27 years in prison, he was convicted of causing $170 million in damage by hacking into point-of-sale syst

by Cyber Safety Solutions Team We’ve uncovered a new breed of point-of-sale (PoS) malware currently affecting businesses across North America and Canada: MajikPOS (detected by Trend Micro as TSPY_MAJIKPOS.A). Like a lot of other PoS malware, MajikPOS is designed to steal information, but its modular approach in execution makes it distinct. We estimate that M

Roman Seleznev (32), the son of the Russian lawmaker and Russian Parliament member Valery Seleznev was convicted of stealing 2.9 Million credit card numbers Roman Seleznev (32), the son of one of the most notorious Russian lawmaker and Russian Parliament member Valery Seleznev has been convicted in the US of hacking businesses and stealing 2.9 million US cre

By now cybercrime has become the fastest growing criminal enterprise of the 21st century, run by efficient organizations with great professionalism. Today, news headlines are mostly about large-scale breaches orchestrated by large criminal syndicates. But smaller one-man operations can be equally devastating to the unwitting home users and businesses. This r

Experts at Dell Secure Works Counter Threat Unit (CTU) published a new report on the evolution of the hacking underground marketplaces. The monitoring of black hat markets is one the principal activities of security experts and intelligence agencies, it allows information gathering on evolution of cyber threats and emerging tr

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 162 - August 29, 2014News, opinion, advice and research!Here's our latest security podcast, featuring Sophos experts and Naked Security writers Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin.(Audio player above not working? Download the MP3, or listen on Soundcloud.)In this episode of the Chet ChatChester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin

Sophos Security Chet Chat - Episode 161 - August 20, 2014News, opinion, advice and research!Here's our latest security podcast, featuring Sophos experts and Naked Security writers Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin.(Audio player above not working? Download the MP3, or listen on Soundcloud.)Stories covered in this episode of the Chet Chat[1'17"] Microsoft p