Russian underground market for phishing campaigns

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Russian underground market for phishing campaigns -

Unfortunately, but not surprisingly enough, Russia has one of the markets underground assets cybercrime it, hackers can solve their sophisticated scams and all the tools to organize cyber attacks.

recent research has revealed how it is a well-organized market, especiall phishing activities. The researchers found an ad on the underground market that provides data access to substantially increase the click rate for a spear phishing campaign, showing a great knowledge of the customer's request: the "leading spam" includes data useful such as market segment, geographic data and information about the company which include fax, telephone number and email

Some security companies have followed how these criminals collect this information :. they were able to build huge data collection, targeting specific sectors and acquire information to use large-scale campaigns spear-phishing.

Certainly, malware is the most invasive and dangerous kind actions of cybercriminals. It is actually quite easy to spread malicious code through huge networks of computers or mobile systems to steal all kinds of data on victims. In the market of cybercrime, many service providers offer all that is necessary to spread malware to the general public at an affordable price.

The researchers also observed a growing trend for DIY (do it yourself), novice cybercriminals trying to do business through the activities of illegal subcontracting of services and purchase tools and information.

There are also some peer-to-peer system with C2C (cybercrime to cybercrime) referring to cyber-criminals groups to exchange or rent their illegal services with alleged colleagues to expand their operations more quickly ... Phishing experts will act over the long term, to be able to collect the huge amount of data and respond to their research against the specific area of ​​interest, so as to enlarge data collection for sale.

to avoid becoming the victim of phishing campaign, you must be careful when receiving from unknown recipients e-mails or messages that appear to be legitimate origin, but to offer "something "you did not ask and demanding information about you.

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