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Facebook's Black Markets Just Keystrokes Away, Researchers Say (nbcnews.com)
Facebook is connecting not only old friends, but also new criminals. Researchers uncovered more than 70 Facebook groups openly selling black-market cyberfraud services, some of which they say had been running for up to eight years. From a report: The now-removed groups had more than 385,000 members in total and offered a variety of illegal services, from credit card information and identity theft to website hacking and email phishing, according to cybersecurity researchers at Talos, the threat intelligence division for the technology company Cisco. By searching for a few well-known fraud terms, the researchers exposed a sizable online black market hiding in plain sight on the world's most popular social media site. "Selling CVV fresh $5" read one post for stolen credit card numbers. "100k mail list fresh" touted another from the "Professional Spammer's and Hacker's [sic]" page. Both posts included purported screenshots of their wares.
Seems like this could describe their activities too.
Seriously... LIterally anything can be used for illicit purposes if it can be used for legitimate purposes. This is no different from when smartphones became a thing... "Your kids could be watching PORN on their phones!" No shit, news person, it plays video.
As the summary states, these are only purported screenshots.
Let's face facts, people: Twitter, Facebook, and their ilk? They've become malignant cancers to our civilization.
..and nothing of value will be lost.
Leave them behind, let them die.
Dear Slashdot
I come here to gain real news and insight. Marks' php script has been hacked to bits and we have to hear about it almost every day. Most of your users get it, he should be hiring programmers who know how to bounds check instead of noobs from Bangladesh. Some of my friends have lost their accounts to crackerjacks, it's the internet and FB cant even recover the account for them, it's just what happens. I had another friend who lost $8,000 on her credit card to Psychic Hotline calls from a skimming attack. I even had very stupid acquaintance (wont call them friend) who paid a Nigerian scammer, even to this day this stuff happens. Bottom line, us techno savvy just dont care.
Stick with proper security advisories please.
Kind Regards
Senior Coward
by "hackers" with "hacks". It's clickbait.
There's a pattern here. Either all the illegal shit is "on the dark web" (oooh spoooky!!1!) or it's "right out in the open" (oooooh the scandal!!!!1!). But it's always "hackers! hacking! hacks!". And of course it's msmash.
Read up on the history of Slashdot - and see who the current owner is.
I've been coming here on and off since the late 90s and the editorial direction has changed dramatically. (I remember John Katz' articles; which I liked.)
There have been advertisements here for a while, but now when I view this site without an adblocker, I see the advertising company that most shit sites use. Ads for outright scams - [insert your state here] will pay off your mortgage! [insert state here] residents don't know about this new insurance requirement! [insert state here] scam fraud bullshit thing!
The web is dead Fred.
--Just here slumming.
Now with EU's 'Meme Ban' - maybe they should consider making Facebook responsible not only for filtering big media copyrighted content but also fraud and other illegal activities that actually are much more harmful? But that is not something of an interest of the largest corporations I guess.
It's news because, with the proper filtering and monitoring in place, such groups could be detected very easily. Yes, I know, privacy and shit, but let's face it, once on Facebook, privacy is gone in an instant.
It's very hard to believe a large group of 385K members can fly under the radar for so long. This can't be explained as incompetence.
And the problem is in the determination of "legal".
The term "legal" (and "illegal") is defined by the state, and in many instances people disagree with the state's assertion (that something is illegal) and ask it for proof. We call such proof "trials", and in many cases the state cannot prove it's assertion, in that instance.
There are also rules and procedures to ensure that people don't get unfairly caught up in the process. For example, being unfairly accused and suffering harm can lead to a lawsuit to recover damages.
Having Facebook monitor illegal activity is bad is because we're asking non-government entities to enforce the law by common-face reading of what the law is, without fear of consequence for getting things wrong. It's also ripe for abuse, and a tool that can be used to unfairly force a viewpoint on the masses.
It's easy to point to specific cases and say "that's obviously illegal", but note that under those rules VCRs were illegal (until taken to court), DeCSS was illegal, and repairing your John Deere tractor is illegal. How much "hate speech" is actually illegal speech? How much of the conservative viewpoint actually advocates violence?
And in these cases, Facebook (or Twitter, or Google, or whoever) can make mistakes and when called on it, say "oh, it was just a mistake, we've corrected it", with no penalties for doing so.
The state declaration of "illegal" has a healthy fear of repercussions from mistakes, but the private entity has none.
...Mark Zuckerberg should have his mansion raided, items seized and brought before a court of law over his crimes.
Politics; n. : A religion whereby man is god.
One of the Facebook usernames that appears to be still up after the purge is "CVV Sales" how hard are they trying?
Also Google Search: "CVV Fresh"
At least they're able to block old white guys with their "MAGA" hats.
It's that simple. They are goddamned rich enough to police their platform, THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO.
I've just started working with Facebook as an smm specialist and it's really complicated. Even though I know a lot, anyway I run into some problems sometimes. Lately had to spend the whole day searching for a proper proxy provider. But luckily, ended up finding https://proxy-seller.com/ which works great.