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In the latest darknet summary, we look at the trouble brewing in carding forums and markets. We often think about fraudsters as being one large group of kindred spirits, working in cahoots to defraud large companies, organisations and financial institutions. But the truth is, fraudsters will use any means possible to make financial gains, which includes turning on each other - and there has been a recent increase in such cases.

This text file contained 33,000 credit cards in clear text. Detective dunn was shocked and the broadway grill had no idea they had even been hacked. The detective ran a report on the credit cards in the text file and the report showed that within a day or two of the cards being stolen they already had fraudulent charges on them from around the world. This meant that whoever stole these cards had a way to move them quick.

The forum has been one of the most trusted and reliable carding forums in the world, but it has also had negative impacts, such as facilitating credit card fraud and other illegal activities. The detective started chatting with track2 over icq to learn more and he found out that track2.Name was where untrusted customers go to buy stolen cards. Then once you’re trusted or you pay a $1,000 registration fee, you can then be invited to bulba.Cc, a more elite carder site. The detective determined the websites were probably owned by the same person and he logged into the site and looked around. He found thousands of credit cards for sale here claiming to be 90% from the us with a 60% valid rate. He also found that in order to buy cards here you have to use liberty reserve to transfer the money.

They found the last wifi connection on the laptop was at that fancy hotel in the maldives and he was logged into the laptop with the username smaus1 and the last application he used was a tor browser. The computer forensics team also tried to see what deleted files they could dig up. Of course they checked out the recycling bin but they also looked in the slack space.

They’d post this frequently on carding world and a few other forums. The secret service started to build a case on this person. [music] They started examining the history of ncux by looking at other forums posts and their online activity. The secret service started finding a lot of clues about this person. In 2008 the hackers got in, stole thousands of credit cards, then gave it to fourteen different cashers around the world. These people would write the dumps to blank credit cards and then go to atms and just go through card after card, taking out as much money as they could until the atm was out of money.

Yeah, some feds in las vegas thought this was suspicious enough and accused roman of being the owner of carder.Su. Roman pleaded guilty to these charges which resulted in him having to pay 50 million dollars in restitution which was the same amount believed to have been made from selling cards on the website. Then once that was over, federal court in atlanta, carders forum georgia took a shot at roman, too. Federal prosecutors there claimed roman, along with 14 other people, hacked into rbs worldpay which is a payment processor in atlanta. [music] This one had a huge inventory of credit card dumps. When the home depot and neiman marcus were hit with their massive credit card breaches, those hackers were selling the dumps on 2pac.Cc and getting 50% of the sales.