Roll up, come see the BOOMING HACKER BAZAAR!

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/15/roll_up_come_see_the_booming_hacker_bazaar/

By John Leyden
The Register
15 Dec 2014

Underground hacker markets are booming with counterfeit documents, 
premiere credit cards, hacker tutorials, and "complete satisfaction 
guarantees", according to a new report from Dell SecureWorks.

The means to create a false identity are easily purchased through the 
cracker bazaars. A fake social security card can be obtain for around 
$200, with supporting documents as additional proof of ID offered for an 
additional charge.

Between December last year and this June, over 1,500 fake driver’s 
licences were purchased from a criminal network monitored by Dell 
researchers at a net cost of $232,660.

Dell SecureWorks' Counter Threat Unit (CTU) director of malware research 
Joe Stewart and SecureWorks network security analyst David Shear completed 
a similar study of the underground hacker market last year. They revisited 
the hacker underground to see if prices for stolen credit cards, fullz (a 
dossier of an individual's credentials which can be used to commit 
identity theft and fraud), bank accounts, and hacker services had gone up 
or down in price.

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