Trump’s-Dumps

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 […]
July 19, 2017

Trump Hotels Hit By 3rd Card Breach in 2 Years

This post was originally published on this siteMaybe some of you missed this amid all the breach news recently (I know I did), but Trump International Hotels Management LLC last week announced its third credit-card data breach in the past two years. I thought it might be useful to see these events plotted on a timeline, because it suggests that virtually anyone who used a credit card at a Trump property in the past two years likely has had their card data stolen and put on sale in the cybercrime underground as a result. On May 2, 2017, KrebsOnSecurity broke […]
February 9, 2022

Russian Govt. Continues Carding Shop Crackdown

This post was originally published on this siteRussian authorities have arrested six men accused of operating some of the most active online bazaars for selling stolen payment card data. The crackdown — the second closure of major card fraud shops by Russian authorities in as many weeks — comes closely behind Russia’s arrest of 14 alleged affiliates of the REvil ransomware gang, and has many in the cybercrime underground asking who might be next. Dept. K’s message for Trump’s Dumps users. On Feb. 7 and 8, the domains for the carding shops Trump’s Dumps, Ferum Shop, Sky-Fraud and UAS were […]
April 22, 2024

Russian FSB Counterintelligence Chief Gets 9 Years in Cybercrime Bribery Scheme

This post was originally published on this siteThe head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colony for accepting a USD $1.7 million bribe to ignore the activities of a prolific Russian cybercrime group that hacked thousands of e-commerce websites. The protection scheme was exposed in 2022 when Russian authorities arrested six members of the group, which sold millions of stolen payment cards at flashy online shops like Trump’s Dumps. A now-defunct carding shop that sold stolen credit cards and invoked 45’s likeness and name. […]