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March 21, 2016

Carders Park Piles of Cash at Joker’s Stash

This post was originally published on this site A steady stream of card breaches at retailers, restaurants and hotels has flooded underground markets with a historic glut of stolen debit and credit card data. Today there are at least hundreds of sites online selling stolen account data, yet only a handful of them actively court bulk buyers and organized crime rings. Faced with a buyer’s market, these elite shops set themselves apart by focusing on loyalty programs, frequent-buyer discounts, money-back guarantees and just plain old good customer service. An ad for new stolen cards on Joker’s Stash. Today’s post examines […]

March 30, 2017

Post-FCC Privacy Rules, Should You VPN?

This post was originally published on this siteMany readers are understandably concerned about recent moves by the U.S. Congress that would roll back privacy rules barring broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) from sharing or selling customer browsing history, among other personal data. Some are concerned enough by this development that they’re looking at obfuscating all of their online browsing by paying for a subscription to a virtual private networking (VPN) service. This piece is intended to serve as a guidepost for those contemplating such a move. On Tuesday, the House approved a Senate resolution to roll back data privacy regulations enacted late last year […]

May 25, 2017

Trump’s Dumps: ‘Making Dumps Great Again’

This post was originally published on this siteIt’s not uncommon for crooks who peddle stolen credit cards to seize on iconic American figures of wealth and power in the digital advertisements for their shops that run incessantly on various cybercrime forums. Exhibit A: McDumpals, a hugely popular carding site that borrows the Ronald McDonald character from McDonald’s and caters to bulk buyers. Exhibit B: Uncle Sam’s dumps shop, which wants YOU! to buy American. Today, we’ll look at an up-and-coming stolen credit card shop called Trump’s-Dumps, which invokes the 45th president’s likeness and promises to make credit card fraud great again. One […]

March 22, 2019

Alleged Child Porn Lord Faces US Extradition

This post was originally published on this siteIn 2013, the FBI exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to seize control over a Dark Web network of child pornography sites. The alleged owner of that ring – 33-year-old Freedom Hosting operator Eric Eoin Marques – was arrested in Ireland later that year on a U.S. warrant and has been in custody ever since. This week, Ireland’s Supreme Court cleared the way for Marques to be extradited to the United States. Eric Eoin Marques. Photo: Irishtimes.com The FBI has called Marques the world’s largest facilitator of child porn. He is wanted on four […]