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Cybercriminals Learning To Filter Out Undercover Cops (krebsonsecurity.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Credit card numbers are constantly being stolen, but the people who take them don't usually use them. Instead, they sell them to others who will. Many cards are traded at online forums and markets. Law enforcement investigators know this, and they use these forums to gather intelligence on breaches. But Brian Krebs writes that one of the biggest markets, Rescator, has implemented methods to screen out suspected law enforcement agents. Krebs says of a law enforcement source of his: "The criminals running the fraud shop seized his carding store account and bitcoin balance after the pig alert flashed on my source's screen — effectively stealing hundreds of taxpayer dollars directly from the authorities. .. I found his case fascinating and yet another example of the growing sophistication of large-scale cybercrime operations."
Maybe have it such that taking a credit card number is not as easy as getting a number. Let me explain: Someone commented getting a credit card even using someone else's name and address, all you have to do is fill out a form and put down a bunch of numbers. Unlike getting a car, you have to show them that it is really you is you getting the car. But I guess credit cards are becoming more commonplace (damned as I see someone buying lousy cup of coffee for $1.25 with their credit card), so with more of these but less of honest jobs that pay a livable wage only bound to have more credit card number thefts.
mfwright@batnet.com
I'm serious by the way, this isn't an attempt to be funny. Appending the cyber- prefix automatically sets them apart and I think that's a bad thing. They're thieves, and we already have plenty of words for those.