dark cloud

May 12, 2016

Carding Sites Turn to the ‘Dark Cloud’

This post was originally published on this siteCrooks who peddle stolen credit cards on the Internet face a constant challenge: Keeping their shops online and reachable in the face of meddling from law enforcement officials, security firms, researchers and vigilantes. In this post, we’ll examine a large collection of hacked computers around the world that currently serves as a criminal cloud hosting environment for a variety of cybercrime operations, from sending spam to hosting malicious software and stolen credit card shops. I first became aware of this botnet, which I’ve been referring to as the “Dark Cloud” for want of a better term, […]